The Thousand and One Nights (various translations/editions referenced by Marina Warner)

Marina Warner's scholarship on The Thousand and One Nights examines the anthology's evolution, cultural transmission and female storytelling figure of Scheherazade.

Her work situates the Nights within broader folk and literary traditions, highlighting how tales migrate, adapt and reflect social values.

Warner pays special attention to gendered storytelling practices and the Nights' narrative complexity.

Jeanette Winterson cites Warner's nonfiction as an influential source that deepened her engagement with the text.

Warner's analyses provide historical and critical context for contemporary reinterpretations of these tales.