One character in this collection finds that treeshave started to grow on the back of a sleeping whale, while the frame story is about Shahryar who postpones theexecution of the Vizier's daughter, Scheherazade, as she tells the stories in this collection.
This collection describes a man who dies choking on a fishbone and is carried to the top of a staircasewhere a doctor causes the body to fall and mistakenly believes himself to be responsible for murder; thatstory about a hunchbacked jester is followed by two related stories about a barber's fifth and sixth brothers.This collection tells of a man who, after discovering that his wife's infidelity, executes her and marries a seriesof women, all of whom he (*) executes after their first day together. One character in this collection finds that treeshave started to grow on the back of a sleeping whale, while the frame story is about Shahryar who postpones theexecution of the Vizier's daughter, Scheherazade, as she tells the stories in this collection. For 10 points, name thiscollection that describes "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor" and also tells of "Aladdin and the WonderfulLamp."
This collection describes a man who dies choking on a fishbone and is carried to the top of a staircasewhere a doctor causes the body to fall and mistakenly believes himself to be responsible for murder; thatstory about a hunchbacked jester is followed by two related stories about a barber's fifth and sixth brothers.
One Thousand and One Nights [or Arabian Nights; or Kitab alf laylah wa-laylah]