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The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

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Classic work by Unknown.

Total Chapters: 19•Public Domain Free Read

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I.

Story of the Merchant and the Jinnee 38 Story of the First Sheykh and the Gazelle 42 Story of the Second Sheykh and t...

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CHAPTER II.

Story of the Fisherman 69 Story of King Yoonán and the Sage Doobán 75 Story of the Husband and the Par...

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CHAPTER III.

Story of the Porter and the Ladies of Baghdád, and of the Three Royal Mendicants, &c. 120 Story of the First Royal Mendicant ...

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CHAPTER IV.

Story of the Three Apples, &c. 222 Story of Noor-ed-Deen and his Son, and of Shems-ed-Deen and his Daughter ...

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CHAPTER V.

Story of the Humpback 291 Story told by the Christian Broker 297 Story told by the Sulṭán's Stewa...

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CHAPTER VI.

Story of Noor-ed-Deen and Enees-el-Jelees 390 Notes 430...

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CHAPTER VII.

Story of Ghánim the Son of Eiyoob, the Distracted Slave of Love 436 Story of the Slave Káfoor ...

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CHAPTER VIII.

Story of Táj-el-Mulook and the Lady Dunyà 469 Story of 'Azeez and 'Azeezeh 480 Continuation of the Story of Táj...

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CHAPTER I.

COMMENCING WITH THE FIRST NIGHT, AND ENDING WITH PART OF THE THIRD. THE STORY OF THE MERCHANT AND THE JINNEE. It has been related to me, O happy King, said Shahrazád, that there ...

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CHAPTER II.

COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE THIRD NIGHT, AND ENDING WITH PART OF THE NINTH. THE STORY OF THE FISHERMAN. There was a certain fisherman, advanced in age, who had a wife and three c...

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CHAPTER III.

COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE NINTH NIGHT, AND ENDING WITH PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH. THE STORY OF THE PORTER AND THE LADIES OF BAGHDÁD, AND OF THE THREE ROYAL MENDICANTS, &c. There w...

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part in the revels, dancing and singing with them, and enjoying

the fragrant odours, began to hug and kiss them, while one slapped[III_21] him, and another pulled him, and the third beat him with sweet-scented flowers, till, at length, the wine...

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CHAPTER IV.

COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH NIGHT, AND ENDING WITH PART OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH. THE STORY OF THE THREE APPLES, &c.[IV_1] One night, after the adventure above described, ...

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Chapter ii., I have shewn that a fiction in one of the tales is framed

in accordance with the distinction of Muslims, Christians, and Jews, by the colours of their turbans, which mode of distinction originated in the beginning of the eighth century of...

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Chapter iii., I have shewn that the state of manners and morals

described in many of these tales agrees, in a most important point of view, with the manners and morals of the Arabs at the commencement of the tenth century of the Flight. This I ...

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CHAPTER V.

COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH NIGHT, AND ENDING WITH PART OF THE THIRTY-SECOND. THE STORY OF THE HUMPBACK. There was, in ancient times, in the city of El-Baṣrah,[V_1]...

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CHAPTER VI.

COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE THIRTY-SECOND NIGHT, AND ENDING WITH PART OF THIS THIRTY-SIXTH. THE STORY OF NOOR-ED-DEEN AND ENEES-EL-JELEES.[VI_1] There was, in El-Baṣrah, a certai...

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CHAPTER VII.

COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH NIGHT, AND ENDING WITH PART OF THE FORTY-FOURTH. THE STORY OF GHÁNIM THE SON OF EIYOOB, THE DISTRACTED SLAVE OF LOVE. It hath been told m...

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CHAPTER VIII.

COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH NIGHT,[VIII_1] AND ENDING WITH PART OF THE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVENTH. THE STORY OF TÁJ-EL-MULOOK AND THE LADY DUNYÀ. There was, i...

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