ألف ليلة وليلة
One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
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A frame tale in which a woman keeps herself alive by never finishing a story, and inside it tales of merchants, jinn, thieves and caliphs that open into further tales. The collection grew over centuries and its contents vary from manuscript to translation. Uneven as it is, its idea of storytelling as a way of postponing death has never worn out.