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Title Stories From the Arabian Nights
Author Laurence Housman
Illustrator Edmund Dulac
Year 1911
Publisher Hodder and Stoughton
Location London
Source djvu
Progress To be proofread
Transclusion Index not transcluded or unreviewed
OCLC 1085339288
Volumes Duplicate index, see notes at Talk:Stories from the Arabian nights (Housman, Dulac)

ILLUSTRATIONS


ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES

1. Their chief in a low but distinct voice uttered the two words 'Open, Sesame'

2. Ali Baba departed for the town a well satisfied man

3. As soon as he came in she began to jeer at him

4. Having transformed himself by disguise

5. She poured into each jar in turn a sufficient quantity of the boiling oil to scald the occupant to death

6. Then for the last figure of all she drew out the dagger


THE STORY OF THE WICKED HALF-BROTHERS

7. There appeared before him an old man of venerable appearance

8. Pirouze the fairest and most honourably born


THE STORY OF THE PRINCESS OF DERYABAR

9. And presently feeling myself lifted by men's hands

10. She and her companion arrived at the city of Harran

11. And taking her hand he led hereto the apartments of the Queen Pirouze

12. After these, maidens on white horses, with heads unveiled, bearing in their hands baskets of precious stones


THE STORY OF THE MAGIC HORSE

13. As he descended the daylight in which hitherto he had been travelling faded from view

14. At so arrogant a claim all the courtiers burst into loud laughter

15. Till the tale of her mirror contented her

16. She gave orders for the banquet to be served

17. All this time the princess had been watching the combat from the roof of the palace

18. It was in vain that all the wisest physicians in the country were summoned into consultation


THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE

19. No sooner had the monarch seen them, so strange of form and so brilliant and diverse in hue

20. Whereupon one upset the pan into the fire

21. He arrived within sight of a palace of shining marble


THE STORY OF THE KING OF THE EBONY ISLES

22. Supposing me asleep they began to talk

23. The Queen of the Ebony Isles

24. Great was the astonishment of the vizier and the sultan's escort