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Illustrations of the Arabian Nights. by Kay Neilson, c.1911. The Book of One Thousand and One Nights is a medieval Middle-Eastern literary work. In English it is also known as The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (an overliteral translation of the Arabic), One Thousand and One Nights, 1001 Arabian Nights, or Arabian Nights. It consists of a number of stories being told by Shahrazad (Shahrazade, or Shahrastini in Persian) to her husband. ©TopFoto