In the reign of the same caliph, Haroun-al-Raschid, of whom we have already heard, there lived at Bagdad a poor porter called Hindbad. One day, when the weather was excessively hot, he was employed to carry a heavy burden from one end of the town to the other. Being much fatigued, he took off his […]

The story takes place in Baghdad during the Abbasid era. Ali Baba and his elder brother Cassim are the sons of  a merchant. After the death of their father, the greedy Cassim marries a wealthy woman and becomes well-to-do, building on their father’s business – but Ali Baba marries a poor woman and settles into […]

There once lived, in one of the large and rich cities of China, a tailor, named Mustapha. He was very poor. He could hardly, by his daily labor, maintain himself and his family, which consisted only of his wife and a son. His son, who was called Aladdin, was a very careless and idle fellow. […]