Arabian Nights selected and edited by Andrew Lang

Yes, I have finally completed this piece which I registered as 'want to read' on Goodreads more than 2 years ago. :-) Was also reacting this alternately with The richest man of Babylon, so a lot make sense. It's like Persian theme reading :-) :-) Well, had to go back to the first page to remember how it started. But more interestingly reread on the background of the book. I am not in the best of mod to write from what I remember this time around, so I will just copy and paste it. ...or not. This story of the people mostly in Iraq / Persia?? I'm not sure, must check later, is according to Lang, part of the Fairy Books, fable I suppose. It began with a Sultan who has been very deeply hurt by his cheating wife, chose to blame all women for his own shortsightedness. He marries a maiden and kills her the next day. Until, a daughter of his grand vizir who is pretty and pretty smart, came out with a plan. To tell a story a few hours before she is supposed to be killed, a story which will entice the Sultan to know if the ending, that he delays the instruction to have her killed. With that, the so many very interesting and probably 'out of the world during those days stories were narrated.