"One Thousand and One Nights" - a collection of tales in Arabic, united by a framing story about the cruel king Shahriyar, who took a new wife every evening and killed her in the morning The history of the "One Thousand and One Nights" is still far from clear; its origins are lost in the depths of centuries. Tales of "A Thousand and One Nights" are characterized by the amusing plot , a bizarre entanglement of the fantastic and the real, vivid pictures of urban life of the medieval Arab East , fascinating descriptions of amazing countries, the vividness and depth of the experiences of the heroes of fairy tales , Psychological justification of situations , clear defined morality. The language of many stories is a living, figurative, juicy, alien obinacs and omissions .. The tales of Shahrazade can be divided into three main groups, which can be called fairy tales heroic, adventurous and plutonic.