Lot Essay
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, a Medieval literary epic, revolves around Queen Scheherazade and her telling of a series of stories to her husband, King Shahryar as a method to delay her scheduled execution. Told over a period of 1001 night, the tales include such famed individual stories as Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Sinbad the Sailor. This masterpiece comprises stories and poems gathered over centuries, by many different people and in many different styles, centrally based on Pahlavi Sassanid Persian book entitled Hazãr Afsãnah.