She spent more than a month in Turkey shooting a new version of The Arabian Nights.

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Dickens, for example, is suffused with the Arabian Nights as it was translated in the 18th Century.

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Jane Corbin sat there dreamy-eyed and wondrous while Major Duncan McSporran regaled her with fairy tales from the Arabian Nights.

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As a collection of stories, the Arabian Nights is hugely influential.

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The stories, narrated by the bride Scheherazade to the Persian king, have resonated in art and literature for centuries, from Edgar Allan Poe to Alfred Tennyson's Recollections of the Arabian Nights.

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Invited late in life to create a cultural, civic and educational center for Baghdad, he turned the assignment into his own version of the Arabian Nights, completing a full set of spectacularly inventive plans and jewel-like drawings that remained an unbuilt dream.

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Above the central portrait, each stamp featured a picture of a lamp that the U.S. Post Office Department identified as the "Lamp of Knowledge" but that I thought of as Aladdin's lamp because of the boy in the Arabian Nights with the magic lamp and the ring and the two genies who give him whatever he asks for.

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