Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 13 (Supplemental Nights)
Author: last_name: Anonymous
Language: English
Year: 1888

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800 and 900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband to prevent him from ex