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as Revealed by his Horse, is named Scheherazade (nicknamed "Sherry"). Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. The horse in, and protagonist of, Robert Lawson's 1953 children's historical novel, Mr.

The book is referenced in numerous works by Jorge Luis Borges.

New Arabian Nights (1882) is a collection of stories by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a "Thousand and Second Night" as a separate tale, called " The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845).

William Wordsworth refers to his childhood reading of the stories in The Prelude (1805). Alfred Tennyson's poem, "Recollections of the Arabian Nights" (1830).

The Nights has also inspired poetry in English, e.g.

Upon returning to Europe, he wrote his masterpiece, a multi-leveled frame tale. A Polish noble of the late 18th century, he traveled the Orient looking for an original edition of The Nights, but never found it.

One Thousand and One Nights influenced The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, by Jan Potocki.

Oriental fantasy which strongly influenced the Gothic novel.

Nourjahad (1767), moral tale by Frances Sheridan.

Whereas the Arabian Nights focuses on the narrative themes of providence and destiny, Voltaire substituted the interference of divine power with human intervention. Further references to the Arabian Nights are expressed in parallels with the stories of Khudâdâd and His Brothers, 'Alâ' al-Dîn, and the History of the Princess of Daryâbâr. 'How is it possible,' said the wise Ouloug, 'that you prefer tales which have neither sense nor reason?' 'That is just why we like them so much, 'replied the Sultanas. Ouloug Beg preferred Zadig, but the Sultanas liked the Thousand-and-One more. Later it was translated into Arabic to amuse the famous Sultan Ouloug Beg, at the same time that the Arabs and Persians were beginning to write the Thousand-and-one-Nights, the Thousand-and-one-Days etc. The story was first written in Chaldean, which neither you nor I understand.

In his introduction to Zadig Voltaire wrote: Candide, ou l'optimisme (Candide, or Optimism 1758) by Voltaire, contains a number of references to the story of Sindbâd the Seaman, notably the underground river in Eldorado, where in Candide the heroes are picked up by a machine.Frank Baum proposed writing a modern fairy tale that banished stereotypical elements, he included the genie as well as the dwarf and the fairy as stereotypes to go. Several elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc. Part of its popularity may have sprung from the increasing historical and geographical knowledge, so that places of which little was known and so marvels were plausible had to be set further "long ago" or farther "far away" this is a process that continues, and finally culminate in the fantasy world having little connection, if any, to actual times and places. Various characters from this epic have themselves become cultural icons in Western culture, such as Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba. Many imitations were written, especially in France. This work has been influential in the West since it was translated in the 18th century, first by Antoine Galland. Byatt, Ruydard Kipling and Angela Carter. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. Writers as diverse as Henry Fielding and Naguib Mahfouz have alluded to the work by name in their own literature. The influence of the versions of The Nights on world literature is immense. The Middle Eastern story collection One Thousand and One Nights has had a profound impact on culture around the world. JSTOR ( October 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "List of works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.