Sophi Fevversโthe toast of Europe’s capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrecโis an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney’s circus. She is ...
Continue Reading โOne Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his ...
Continue Reading โ“In the ten volumes of “The Nights” proper, I mostly avoided parallels of folk-lore and fabliaux which, however interesting and valuable to scholars, would have ...
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