Week 6 Reading Notes, B

The tales of the Parrot: The Merchant and His Wife

This story is quite interesting. I like how the narrative is set up, and the story behind it. If I were to rewrite this story, I would make it about animals and tie it back to providing food instead of dancing and jewels.

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The Tooti Nameh or Tales of a Parrot, by Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi (1801).

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