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Author: Andrew Lang.
Release Date: June 9, 2008  Language: English

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The Arabian Nights
In the chronicles of the ancient dynasty of the Sassanidae, who reigned for
about four hundred years, from Persia to the borders of China, beyond the great
river Ganges itself, we read the praises of one of the kings of this race, who was
said to be the best monarch of his time. His subjects loved him, and his
neighbors feared him, and when he died he left his kingdom in a more
prosperous and powerful condition than any king had done before him.
The two sons who survived him loved each other tenderly, and it was a real
grief to the elder, 
Schahriar, that the laws of the empire forbade him to share his
dominions with his brother Schahzeman. Indeed, after ten years, during which
this state of things had not ceased to trouble him, Schahriar cut off the country of
Great Tartary from the Persian Empire and made his brother king.
Now the Sultan Schahriar had a wife whom he loved more than all the world,
and his greatest happiness was to surround her with splendour, and to give her
the finest dresses and the most beautiful jewels. It was therefore with the deepest
shame and sorrow that he accidentally discovered, after several years, that she
had deceived him completely, and her whole conduct turned out to have been so
bad, 
that he felt himself obliged to carry out the law of the land, and order the
grand-vizir to put her to death. The blow was so heavy that his mind almost gave
way, and he declared that he was quite sure that at bottom all women were as
wicked as the sultana, if you could only find them out, and that the fewer the
world contained the better. So every evening he married a fresh wife and had her
strangled the following morning before the grand-vizir, whose duty it was to
provide these unhappy brides for the Sultan. The poor man fulfilled his task with
reluctance, but there was no escape, and every day saw a girl married and a wife
dead.
This behaviour caused the greatest horror in the town, where nothing was
heard but cries and lamentations. In one house was a father weeping for the loss
of his daughter, in another perhaps a mother trembling for the fate of her child;
and instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan’s head,
the air was now full of curses.
The grand-vizir himself was the father of two daughters, of whom the elder
was called Scheherazade, and the younger Dinarzade. 
Dinarzade had no
particular gifts to distinguish her from other girls, but her sister was clever and
courageous in the highest degree. Her father had given her the best masters in
philosophy, medicine, history and the fine arts, and besides all this, her beauty
excelled that of any girl in the kingdom of Persia.
One day, when the grand-vizir was talking to his eldest daughter, who was his
delight and pride, Scheherazade said to him, “Father, I have a favour to ask of
you. Will you grant it to me?”
“I can refuse you nothing,” replied he, “that is just and reasonable.”
“Then listen,” said Scheherazade. “I am determined to stop this barbarous
practice of the Sultan’s, and to deliver the girls and mothers from the awful fate
that hangs over them.”
“It would be an excellent thing to do,” returned the grand-vizir, “but how do
you propose to accomplish it?”
“My father,” answered Scheherazade, “it is you who have to provide the
Sultan daily with a fresh wife, and I implore you, by all the affection you bear
me, to allow the honour to fall upon me.”
“Have you lost your senses?” cried the grand-vizir, starting back in horror.
“What has put such a thing into your head? 
You ought to know by this time what
it means to be the sultan’s bride!”
“Yes, my father, I know it well,” replied she, “and I am not afraid to think of
it. If I fail, my death will be a glorious one, and if I succeed I shall have done a provide these unhappy brides for the Sultan. The poor man fulfilled his task with
reluctance, but there was no escape, and every day saw a girl married and a wife
dead.
This behaviour caused the greatest horror in the town, where nothing was
heard but cries and lamentations. In one house was a father weeping for the loss
of his daughter, in another perhaps a mother trembling for the fate of her child;
and instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan’s head,
the air was now full of curses.
The grand-vizir himself was the father of two daughters, of whom the elder
was called Scheherazade, and the younger Dinarzade. 
Dinarzade had no
particular gifts to distinguish her from other girls, but her sister was clever and
courageous in the highest degree. Her father had given her the best masters in
philosophy, medicine, history and the fine arts, and besides all this, her beauty
excelled that of any girl in the kingdom of Persia.
One day, when the grand-vizir was talking to his eldest daughter, who was his
delight and pride, Scheherazade said to him, “Father, I have a favour to ask of
you. Will you grant it to me?”
“I can refuse you nothing,” replied he, “that is just and reasonable.”
“Then listen,” said Scheherazade. “I am determined to stop this barbarous
practice of the Sultan’s, and to deliver the girls and mothers from the awful fate
that hangs over them.”
“It would be an excellent thing to do,” returned the grand-vizir, “but how do
you propose to accomplish it?” 
“My father,” answered Scheherazade, “it is you who have to provide the
Sultan daily with a fresh wife, and I implore you, by all the affection you bear
me, to allow the honour to fall upon me.”
“Have you lost your senses?” cried the grand-vizir, starting back in horror.
“What has put such a thing into your head? You ought to know by this time what
it means to be the sultan’s bride!”
“Yes, my father, I know it well,” replied she, “and I am not afraid to think of
it. If I fail, my death will be a glorious one, and if I succeed I shall have done a
A medieval Middle-Eastern literary epic which tells the story of Scheherazade, a Sassanid Queen, who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent husband, the King, to delay her execution. The stories are told over a period of one thousand and one nights, and every night she ends the story with a suspenseful situation, forcing the King to keep her alive for another day. The individual stories were created over many centuries, by many people and in many styles, and they have become famous in their own right.
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ed home his wife and children received him with the greatest joy. But instead of embracing them he began to weep so bitterly that they soon guessed that something terrible was the matter.

“Tell us, I pray you,” said his wife, “what has happened.”

“Alas!” answered her husband, “I have only a year to live.”

Then he told them what had passed between him and the genius, and how he had given his word to return at the end of a year to be killed. When they heard this sad news they were in despair, and wept much.

The next day the merchant began to settle his affairs, and first of all to pay his debts. He gave presents to his friends, and large alms to the poor. He set his slaves at liberty, and provided for his wife and children. The year soon passed away, and he was obliged to depart. When he tried to say good-bye he was quite overcome with grief, and with difficulty tore himself away. At length he reached the place where he had first seen the genius, on the very day that he had appointed

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