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1 author picked The Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is a collection of Arabian folk tales, stories that have been told for centuries. It hooked me from the start.
It’s told as a story within a story, and it starts out as the doomed Scheherazade’s ruse to keep a ruthless tyrant from marrying and then killing the women of his kingdom (including her). Every night she builds on the previous night’s story by spinning a different tale of intrigue and excitement, of men and women, children and adults, beggars and royalty, and as the king is drawn into her world, so are we.
Scheherazade is witty and…
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