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The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales (Classic Reprint)
The Arabian Nights Their BestKnown Tales - Classic Reprint Author:Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin THERE was an emperor of Persia named Kosrouschah, who, when he first came to his crown, in order to obtain a knowledge of affairs, took great pleasure in night excursions, attended by a trusty minister. He often walked in disguise through the city, and met with many adventures, one of the most remarkable of which happened to him upon his first r... more »amble, which was not long after his accession to the throne of his father.
After the ceremonies of his father's funeral rites and his own inauguration were over, the new sultan, as well from inclination as from duty, went out one evening attended by bis grand vizier, disguised like himself, to observe what was transacting in the city. As lie was passing through a street in that part of the town inhabited only by the meaner sort, he heard some people talking very loud; and going close to the bouse whence the noise proceeded, and looking through a crack in the door, perceived a light, and three sisters sitting on a sofa, conversing together afte
Table of Contents
The Talking Bird, the Singing Tkel, and the; Golden Water $; The Story of the Fisherman and thf, Genie 52; The History of the Young King of the Black Isles 07; The Story of Gulnare of the Sea 81; The Story of Aladdin ; or, the Wonderful Lamp 97; The Story of Prince Agib 190; The Story of the City of Brass 205; The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 229; The History of Codadad and His Brothers 204; The Story of Sinbad the Voyager 290
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