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Arabian Nights (1928)
Arabian Nights, as illustrated by Virginia Sterrett, is a compilation of tales edited by Hildegard Hawthorne. In her Foreward, Hawthorne provides an overview of the stories thus:
The stories known as the Thousand and One Nights are very old. They are known to have existed from as early as the Thirteenth Century, and many of them were told, quite possibly, as early as the Ninth ...
Only a very few of the stories are contained in this book, but they are among the most famous. You will find the English a little quaint, not just what is used to tell a story today, but not enough so to be a bother. As you read you must fancy that it is Scheherazade who is speaking, in her low and musical voice, while her slave girl lies at her feet and the sultan sits beside her on the rich couch with its Eastern hangings. Remember that she is telling each story to save her life, and the lives of the many maidens who would follow her to death if she should fail to hold the interest of her husband. She breaks off as day comes, and always she tried to do this at a point that will make him anxious to hear more. It is she who invented the continued story. Through the tall, narrow windows, with their arched tops, veiled with silken curtains, the sun at length pierces, and at that signal she must stop - safe, she hopes, for another day.
Sterrett's illustrations to accompany Arabian Nights were her final suite of illustrations prepared prior to her death. She had worked on them for many years prior to the publication of the tales in 1928 and they are truly magnificent.
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