Put these in order, top to bottom, from earliest to most recent A horse-and-donkey-pulled wagon pulls up to the house,
Elisa and Henry head to town in the car.
Henry admires Elisa's chrysanthemums.
The man asks about the plants Elisa is growing.
Elisa gives the man the chrysanthemum sprouts and a pot.
Henry tells Elisa that he wants to go to dinner in town later.
Elisa bathes and gets dressed to go out.
Elisa turns up her coat collar and cries.
Disa sees the chrysanthemum sprouts on the roadside.

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following for purely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundred years after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabic imprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual history acknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation of both the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. the vast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has been integrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-called baghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages are preceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in its turn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating from indian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culture hold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisingly few details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actual position within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss links between the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveying these links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabian nights in modern iran

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