Stories From the Arabian Nights

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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 lie more comfortably. It is one thing to enjoy the taste of ow 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 mankind, 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 enjoyment they afford. What, then, is the origin of these stories from which our every-day speech borrows so many names and figures? In Europe they were not known till 1704, when a learned Frenchman, Antoine Galland, who had traveled widely in the East, put them skillfully, if not too accurately, into the language of his own people. How popular they became at once, the following story will indicate. The translator introduced the tales in the first part of his work by making Dinar-zade say to Schehera-zade, "My dear sister, if you are not asleep, I beg you to relate one of those pleasant stories that you know." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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