Index:Stories from the Arabian nights - Houseman - Dulac.djvu

Title Stories from the Arabian Nights
Author Laurence Housman
Illustrator Edmund Dulac
Publisher Hodder and Stoughton
Location London
Source djvu
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Validated in July 2024
OCLC 1085332181

CONTENTS

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THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE 27
THE STORY OF THE KING OF THE EBONY ISLES 53
ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES 81
THE STORY OF THE MAGIC HORSE 133
THE STORY OF THE WICKED HALF-BROTHERS 187
THE STORY OF THE PRINCESS OF DERYABAR 205

ILLUSTRATIONS


THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE


Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and One Nights Frontispiece
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Thereupon the damsel upset the pan into the fire 39
He arrived within sight of a palace of shining marble 47


THE STORY OF THE KING OF THE EBONY ISLES


The Queen of the Ebony Isles 57
Began to heap upon me terms of the most violent and shameful abuse 65
She went on to vent her malice upon the city and islands 75


ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES


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As soon as he came in she began to jeer at him 89
"Sir," said he, "I have brought my oil a great distance to sell to-morrow" 109
She poured into each jar in turn a sufficient quantity of the boiling oil to scald its occupant to death 117


THE STORY OF THE MAGIC HORSE


As he descended, the daylight in which hitherto he had been travelling faded from view 139
Till the tale of her mirror contented her 147
She gave orders for the banquet to be served 155
For many months he travelled without clue 177


THE STORY OF THE WICKED HALF-BROTHERS


The lady advanced to meet him 197


THE STORY OF THE PRINCESS OF DERYABAR


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A city among the Isles named Deryabar 209
After these, maidens on white horses, with heads unveiled, bearing in their hands baskets of precious stones 229