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Quotation from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang (ed.)
“The Sultana told a story, and the Sultan let her live to finish it.”
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Story of the Merchant and the Genius, trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898)
The narrator sums up the pattern of the nights after the Sultan himself asks to hear the end of the merchant's story.
Citation: "The Sultana told a story, and the Sultan let her live to finish it." — Andrew Lang (ed.), The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Story of the Merchant and the Genius, trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898). (id the-arabian-nights-q3)
Portrait: Arabian nights' entertainments (Longman 1898) Ford illustration to frontispiece, Henry Justice Ford, Public domain.
