The Arabian Nights

The Thousandth Night

Last Night 4, Shahrazad Stops

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In a chamber at the center of an ornamental frame, Shahrazad tells her tale while the king and her sister sit listening.
Illustration by William Harvey, Lane's Thousand and One Nights, Chatto and Windus, 1883 (wood engravings of 1838 to 1840)Original

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The nights that began in chapter 1 end here. Every story in this book came out in between. What we are looking at in this chapter is not a story she tells.

All through this book Shahrazad has been the one speaking. Something close to forty chapters came out of that seat. Here, for the first time, she becomes a person inside the story.

Other things happened in the palace across the thousand nights. Three children were born in that time. The book sets the fact down in a single passing line.

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