Scheherazade had perused the books, annals, and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples, and instances of bygone men and things indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. ![]() Sir Richard Burton's translation of The Nights, describes Scheherazade in this way: Eventually the vizier could find no more virgins of noble blood and offered his own daughter, Scheherazade, as the king's next bride. The story goes that the monarch Shahryar, on discovering that his first wife was unfaithful to him, resolved to marry a new virgin every day and to have her beheaded the next morning before she could dishonour him. Scheherazade and the sultan by the Iranian painter Sani ol molk (1849–1856) Narration
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