Aˌrabian ˈNights, the (also the Thousand and One Nights)
a collection of Arabic stories from the 10th century, including Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad. The narrator (=the character who tells the story) is Scheherazade, a young woman who prevents her cruel husband from killing her by amusing him with a different story every night for a thousand and one nights.

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