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  • The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales

    by George Payn Quackenbos, Wilhelm Hauff, John William Orr ...
    In a beautiful distant kingdom, of which there is a saying, that the sun on its everlasting green gardens never goes down, ruled, from the beginning of time even to the present day, Queen Phantasie. With full hands, she used to distribute for many hundred years, the abundance of her blessings among her subjects, and was beloved and respected by all who knew her. The heart of the Queen, however, ... Read more

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  • Arabian Nights Entertainments. Illustrated.: Best-Known Tales. Incl: Aladdin Or The Wonderful Lamp, The Story Of Sindbad The Sailor, The History Of Ali Baba And Of The Forty Robbers & More (Mobi Classics)

    by Anonymous ...
    TABLE OF CONTENTS:Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp - illustrated children's poetryThe Arabian Nights Entertainments - illustrated by Milo WinterThe Sultan and his Vow The Story of the Merchant and the Genie The Three Calenders, Sons of Kings, and the Five Ladies of Bagdad The Story of the Three Sisters The Story of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp The History of Ali Baba, and of the Forty Robbers ... Read more

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  • Arabian Poetry

    by W. A. Clouston ...
    Arabian Poetryby W. A. CloustonRare 19th century translations of Arabian poetry, mostly pre-Islamic or contemporary with Muhammed. Includes the Hanged Poems, and a synopsis of the Antar Saga."This is an anthology of 19th century Orientalist translations of Arabian poetry, many of which are very rare, as is this particular book. Most of the included works either predated Muhammed or were ... Read more

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  • The Arabian Nights

    by Andrew Lang ...
    One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. ... Read more

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  • The Arabian Nights: Favorite Tales from 1001 Nights (Illustrated)

    by Laurence Housman ...
    Eleven popular tales from the Arabian Nights including such favorites as Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The History of Badoura, with 80 magnificent illustrations by Edmund Dulac. ... Read more

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  • Complete Children Fantasy Fairy Tales Anthologies Collection (9 in 1)

    True History,Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world,King of the Golden River,Through the Looking Glass,Water Babies,Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night,At the Back of the North Wind,Phantastes, Lilith

    by Jonathan Swift, John Ruskin, LEWIS CARROLL ...
    The King of the Golden River (1841), the history of modern fantasy literature is usually said to begin with George MacDonald, the Scottish author of such novels as The Princess and the Goblin and Phantastes (1858), the latter of which is widely considered to be the first fantasy novel ever written for adults. MacDonald was a major influence on both J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The other major ... Read more

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  • Sinbad the Sailor (Illustrated)

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional sailor and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin; he is described as living in Baghdad, during the Abbasid Caliphate. During his voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures going to magical places, meeting monsters, and encountering supernatural phenomena.This Sindbad the Sailor has a story to tell—the ... Read more

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  • The History of the Caliph Vathek by William Beckford

    by William Beckford ...
    THE HISTORY OF CALIPH VATHEK is a fictional Arabian tale based on the the life of the Caliph Al-Wathiq. Vathek, an ambitious ruler, seeks supernatural powers through any means necessary. He renounces Islam and engages in debauchery and other evils with his mother, Carathis, in an attempt to further his power. As punishment for his sins, Vathek is condemned to a hell ruled by the demon Eblis where ... Read more

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  • Stories From Arabian Nights

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Laurence Housman ...
    Excerpt: "Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world much as does Penelope among the weavers. Procrastination was the basis of her art; for though the task she accomplished was splendid and memorable, it is rather in the quantity than the quality of her invention—in the long spun-out performance of what could have been done far more ... Read more

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  • The Arabian Nights' Entertainments - Illustrated by Louis Rhead

    by Louis Rhead ...
    Although Stevenson is perhaps most famous for "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "The New Arabian Nights" was his first published collection of fiction. First published in 1916, It is an English-translation of the "One Thousand and One Nights", an anthology of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. It was ... Read more

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  • Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara

    by William Le Queux ...
    The adventure was strange, the mystery inexplicable. A blazing noontide in the month of Moharram. Away across the barren desert to the distant horizon nothing met the aching eye but a dreary waste of burning red-brown sand under a cloudless sky shining like burnished copper. Not an object relieved the wearying monotony of the waterless region forsaken by nature, not a palm, not a rock, not a knoll ... Read more

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  • Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

    by Various Authors ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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