Explore pieces from the collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales known as The Thousand and One Nights. Various editions of these stories—compiled over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, South Asia and North Africa—are united by their use of an initial frame story, in which the character Scheherazade narrates tales to the Sultan Shahriyar over many nights.
The Harvard Classics
Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics.
