Hazār afsāna

Persian literary collection

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In short story: Proliferation of forms
…was a medieval Persian collection, Hazār afsāna (“Thousand Romances,” no longer extant). In both the Persian and Arabian versions of the frame, the clever Scheherazade avoids death by telling her king-husband a thousand stories. Though the framing device is identical in both versions, the original Persian stories within the frame…
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