The Arabian nights' entertainments, or, The book of a thousand nights and a night: a selection of the most famous and representative of these tales from the plain and literal translations [Modern Library ed] 9780679602354, 0679602356

"Collection of tales featuring Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad told by Scheherazade to save herself from death at the

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The Arabian nights' entertainments, or, The book of a thousand nights and a night: a selection of the most famous and representative of these tales from the plain and literal translations [Modern Library ed]
 9780679602354, 0679602356

Table of contents :
Story of King Shahryar and his brother --
The fisherman and the Jinni --
The porter and the three ladies of Baghdad --
The tale of the three apples --
Tale of Nur Al-din Ali and his son Badr Al-din Hasan --
Tale of Ghanim Bin Ayyub, the distraught, the thrall o' love --
The tale of the birds and beasts and the carpenter --
The hermits --
The tale of Kamar Al-zaman --
Hatim of the tribe of Tayy --
Tale of Ma'an son of Zaidah and the Badawi --
The city of the many-columned Iram and Abdullah son of Abi Kalibah --
The sweep and the noble lady --
Ali the Persian --
The man who stole the dish of gold wherein the dog ate --
The ruined man who became rich again through a dream --
The ebony horse --
How Abu Hasan brake wind --
The angel of death with the proud king and the devout man --
Sindbad the seaman and Sindbad the landsman --
The city of brass --
The lady and her five suitors --
Judar and his brethren --
Julnar the sea-born and her son King Badr Basim of Persia --
Khalifah the fisherman of Baghdad --
Abu Kir the dyer and Abu Sir the barber --
The sleeper and the waker --
Alaeddin
or the wonderful lamp --
Ali Baba and the forty thieves --
Ma'aruf the cobbler and his wife Fatimah.

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