The story's unnamed narrator says that he has read a book from the Orient, called Tellmenow Isitsoornot, which is not very well known in Europe and almost completely unknown in the United States. Scheherazade, 19th century oil painting by Sophie Gengembre Anderson. Thirty-four footnotes to the story explain that all of the amazing things which Sinbad describes are scientific facts or genuine historical events. He sees and hears about many things which, from the descriptions Sinbad gives, appear to be the stuff of fantasy. Sinbad is not aware that he is really traveling on a 19th-century steamship. In the story, on the thousand and second night after her wedding, Scheherazade tells her husband the King a story in which Sinbad travels the world on what he believes to be the back of a monster. The story is presented as a continuation of The Thousand and One Nights and another adventure of the famous character Sinbad the Sailor. It was first published in the Philadelphia magazine Godey's Lady's Book in February 1845. "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" is a humorous short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. Artwork inspired by "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade".
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