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These three works of fiction are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. Janet Todd explores how these novels are linked, not only through the mother-daughter relationship of their authors, but also in their perceptions of feminism and female sexuality.

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical la...