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The Arabian Nights Entertainments

By Andrew Lang

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Cover: Frontispiece, Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights (1914), watercolour by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1953; published 1914)

Andrew Lang's 1898 selection from the Arabian Nights for young readers: Aladdin, Sindbad, the Little Hunchback, the Enchanted Horse and other tales told by Scheherazade. Genies, caves and sultans fill the pages. The most famous collection of Eastern stories in English.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: The Story of the Merchant and the Genius
  2. 2: The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind
  3. 3: The Story of the Second Old Man, and of the Two Black Dogs
  4. 4: The Story of the Fisherman
  5. 5: The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban
  6. 6: The Story of the Husband and the Parrot
  7. 7: The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished
  8. 8: The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles
  9. 9: The Story of the First Calender, Son of a King
  10. 10: The Story of the Second Calendar, Son of a King
  11. 11: The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
  12. 12: The Story of the Third Calendar, Son of a King
  13. 13: The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor
  14. 14: The Little Hunchback
  15. 15: The Story of the Barber's Fifth Brother
  16. 16: The Story of the Barber's Sixth Brother
  17. 17: The Adventures of Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura
  18. 18: Noureddin and the Fair Persian
  19. 19: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
  20. 20: The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, Caliph of Bagdad
  21. 21: The Story of the Blind Baba-Abdalla
  22. 22: The Story of Sidi-Nouman
  23. 23: The Story of Ali Colia, Merchant of Bagdad
  24. 24: The Enchanted Horse
  25. 25: The Story of Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their Younger Sister