Poe, Edgar Allen / 2008-07-28 00:00:00

1850
THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE
by Edgar Allan Poe
Truth is stranger than fiction.
OLD SAYING.
HAVING had occasion, lately, in the course of some Oriental
investigations, to consult the Tellmenow Isitsoornot, a work which
(like the Zohar of Simeon Jochaides) is scarcely known at all, even in
Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my knowledge, by any
American- if we except, perhaps, the author of the "Curiosities of
American Literature";- having had occasion, I say, to turn over some
pages of the first- mentioned very remarkable work, I was not a little
astonished to discover that the literary world has hitherto been
strangely in error respecting the fate of the vizier's daughter,
Scheherazade, as that fate is depicted in the "Arabian Nights"; and
that the denouement there given, if not altogether inaccurate, as
far as it goes, is at least to blame in not having gone very much
farther.
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