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Arabian Nights Entertainments, by Anonymous
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Title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Author: Anonymous
Illustrator: Milo Winter
Release Date: November 18, 2006 [EBook #19860]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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[Illustration: The genie immediately returned with a tray bearing dishes of the most delicious viands. Page 168.]
THE WINDERMERE SERIES
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
MILO WINTER
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK
Copyright, 1914, by
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
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THE INTRODUCTION
The Arabian Nights was introduced to Europe in a French translation by Antoine Galland in 1704, and rapidly attained a unique popularity. There are even accounts of the translator being roused from sleep by bands of young men under his windows in Paris, importuning him to tell them another story.
The learned world at first refused to believe that M. Galland had not invented the tales. But he had really discovered an Arabic manuscript from