Presents a retelling of traditional tales from the Middle East.
Accompanying the text are illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, which are themselves miracles of visual and imaginative sympathy.
Some of the best-loved stories in the world, originating in Persia, India and Arabia, retold especially for children.
Includes "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp," "The Ebony Horse," "The Dream," and other stories.
These tales of kings and princes, magicians, and talking beasts, which were daily entertainment in India, Persia and Arabia over a thousand years ago, are retold especially for children in this vivid, fresh collection.
A retelling of the adventures of Aladdin who, with the aid of a genie from a magic lamp, fights an evil sorcerer and wins the hand of a beautiful princess.
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
For the past two hundred years, Western readers, young and old alike, have been transported to the fabulous Orient by means of these remarkable stories, in which the everyday mingles on an equal footing with the uncanny and the miraculous.
First introduced to Europe in the early eighteenth century by the French orientalist, Antione Galland, who translated and bowdlerized the stories to suit contemporary taste, this edition presents the fourteen best-known tales selected from ...
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights