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A humorous romantic tale set in an exotic court follows a peaceable pasha whose attempts at family policy are thwarted by his eloquent, imperious wife. Domestic disputes over their son’s upbringing draw in a witty sage-turned-vizier whose counsel reshapes household power, while courtly intrigue, fortune-telling, and comic misunderstandings generate a sequence of adventures and social satire that gently lampoons vanity, marital diplomacy, and the performative rituals of court life.
To the lineal descendant of the Lady Kayenna, who told me this true history, the while I could but marvel and admire the teller; for, of a truth, since Scheherezade there hath been none to approach her in goodliness and wit and wisdom and all comeliness of mind and person and, especially, in a proper and intelligent appreciation of
THE ILLUSTRIOUS AUTHOR.