Fairy tales from the Arabian nights Free PDF book ( 1907 ) With Illustrations by E. Dixon









They are the best, too, of all those tales from Arabia, India, or China, if we measure them by the fame they have gained beyond their fellow-stories in our Western world. They include “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp,” “ Sinbad the Sailor,” and others just as engrossing, which have been told more often to English youngsters than any stories in all the world’s ken, save those, like “Jack the Giant Killer” and “Tom Tit-Tot,” that are British or English and home-made. Perhaps to enjoy them in their full Arabian flavor, which is as pleasant and distinct to the taste like a cup of the best Arabian coffee, we ought to recall how in the tents, or in the narrow streets, of the East, the tale-tellers commonly tell tales of this kind. It is on the evenings of feast-days and holidays that the tale-tellers in Arab towns and villages usually recite their tales.You may picture them sitting on a stool, either on the floor of a tent or on the raised seat built-in some Eastern streets before the coffee-shops. They sometimes have a musical instrument, a viol of only one string called the “ Poet’s Viol,” on which they play a note or a few notes where scrap or few lines of verse come, as they so often do, into the story. As for the hearers, they sit where they can, on the bench or on the ground, smoking their long pipes and sipping their coffee. The performer or tale-reciter is most lively in gesture and most expressive in voice when narrating the various events, alarm¬ ing or amusing, that make up the story; and he recites them, as a rule, only from memory. But there are a few tale-tellers in larger cities, like Cairo, who read stories also from books.The King Of Persia And The Princess Of The Sea. IPrince Camaralzaman And The Princess Of China . 1 8The Loss Of The Talisman . . . -53The First Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor. 74The Second Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor. 78The Third Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor. 85The Fourth Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor. 91The Fifth Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor. 99The Sixth Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor. I05The Seventh And Last Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor Ii4The Story Of Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves. 121The Story Of The Enchanted Horse. 151The Story Of The Fisherman And Genie. • I 75The Story Of Aladdin Or, The Wonderful Lamp. 202The Fair Slave Was Immediately Brought In. 3Princess Badoura And Prince Camaralzaman . 29“i Am An Astrologer” . . . -47Prince Camaralzaman Discovers The Cave. 6l“one Of Them Came To The Nest Where I Was ”. 8lThe Tavo Rocs Approached With A Frightful Noise IoiWe Marched Thus Together . . . .illThe Elephant Taking Me Up With His Trunk, LaidMe On His Back . . . . . Il8Ali Baba Counted Forty Of Them. *123Morgiana . . . . . .141The Prince Immediately Fell In Love With Her . 1 59The Princess Of Bengal . . . .169“i Say,” Answered The Genie, “speak To Me MoreCivilly, Before I Kill Thee ” . . . 179The Lady Overturned The Frying-pan... 185The City Of The Black Isles . . . . I92Aladdin’s Mother Was Unable To Speak. 217New Lamps For Old .;251EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS Publication Date: 1907