Publisher's Synopsis
Oriental Story Book. Arabic FolktalesThe Oriental Story Book - is popular classic work by Wilhelm Hauff is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of this autor, then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.The book is filled with authenticity, culture and traditions of Arabic world.
The East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material, but to select only that which it is best worth his while to preserve. The conditions under which the people live are most favourable to the preservation of the ancient legends, and the cultivation of the powers of narration fits the Oriental to present his stories in a more polished style than is usual in the Western countries. The reader of these Arabic Folktales will observe many points of similarity between them and the popular fictions of the West- similarity of thought and incident- and nothing, perhaps, speaks more eloquently the universal brotherhood of man than this oneness of folk-fiction. At the same time, Arabic Folktales are unique, lighted up as they are by a gorgeous extravagance of imagination which never fails to attract and delight.
This Collection consists of tales: The caravanThe History, of Caliph Stork, The History of the Spectre Ship, Story of the Hewn-off Hand, Fatima's deliverance, Little Muck, The story of the False Prince...and many many more!♥
