He moved on to the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, the Tarzan and Martian adventures byEdgar Rice Burroughs, the classic science fiction of Jules Verne and horror of EdgarAllanPoe.
The stories, narrated by the bride Scheherazade to the Persian king, have resonated in art and literature for centuries, from EdgarAllanPoe to Alfred Tennyson's Recollections of the Arabian Nights.