The tales of told by shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful. Find books like one thousand and one nights from the worlds largest community of readers. Goodreads members who liked one thousand and one nights. The one thousand and one nights employs an early example of the frame story, or framing device.
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