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The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales

by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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(Preface by Kate Douglas Wiggin): Little excuse is needed, perhaps, for any fresh selection from the famous "Tales of a Thousand and One Nights," provided it be representative enough, and worthy enough, to enlist a new army of youthful readers.
There was an emperor of Persia named Kosrouschah, who, when he first camet to his crown, in order to obtain a knowledge of affairs, took great pleasure in night excursions, attended by a trusty minister.
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This is The Scribner Illustrated Classics version, edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Please DO NOT combine with other abridgements unless they have the same ISBN or you have confirmed they are exactly the same work with the same translator/editor. Please DO NOT combine abridgements with single volumes or complete sets. If in doubt, please DO NOT combine. Especially not when combining large numbers of copies. It takes a lot of time and effort to separate and recombine works.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0684195895, Hardcover)

For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Stories of O. Henry, to be illustrated by some of the finest artists of our generation, including Wendell Minor, Ed Young, and Trina Schart Hyman.

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Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.

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