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Quotation from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang (ed.)
“My dear sister, if you are not asleep, tell me I pray you, before the sun rises, one of your charming stories.”
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Arabian Nights (frame story), trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898)
An hour before daybreak on the first night, Dinarzade speaks the words her sister taught her, and the storytelling begins.
Citation: "My dear sister, if you are not asleep, tell me I pray you, before the sun rises, one of your charming stories." — Andrew Lang (ed.), The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Arabian Nights (frame story), trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898). (id the-arabian-nights-q2)
Portrait: Arabian nights' entertainments (Longman 1898) Ford illustration to frontispiece, Henry Justice Ford, Public domain.
