Thousand and One Nights

noun

1. See Arabian Nights' Entertainments

Example Sentences

Barth said he felt like Scheherazade in “The Thousand and One Nights,” desperately trying to survive by creating literature.

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“Aladdin” comes from the folk tale collection “The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.”

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In American Kuwaiti author Chelsea Abdullah’s trilogy launch “The Stardust Thief,” multiple narrators spin a fast-moving tale of adventure and court intrigue inspired by the tales of “One Thousand and One Nights.”

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When writing “Voices of the Desert,” an erotic retelling of “One Thousand and One Nights,” she read the Quran twice, according to Ms. Vincent.

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“Prisoners of the Castle” sometimes reads like “A Thousand and One Nights” meets “Groundhog Day,” with evermore baroque attempts to exit the same dull trap.

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