Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Stories From the Arabian Nights: With an Introductory Note
When we sit down at the breakfast-table we do not often stop to ask ourselves whence such common things as coffee and sugar, pepper and salt, have come to us, or how many and what various persons have been engaged in bringing them out of the ground and across the seas, in buying and selling them, and making a livelihood, that we ourselves may live more comfortably. It is one thing to enjoy the taste of our viands, and it is another pleasure to know something of their origin. In the same way we read such tales as The Arabian Nights, a common property of man kind, and rejoice in them; and there is a separate satisfaction in finding where they have come from, and what and whom we have to thank for the enjoy ment they afford.
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