Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)
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Quoth Sanjar, “I will do my endeavour for that which our lord seeketh.”
“This is a blessed day and a day of gladness, and who is he that liveth to see the like of this day?
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- AL-MALIK AL-ZAHIR RUKN AL-DIN BIBARS AL-BUNDUKDARI AND THE SIXTEEN CAPTAINS OF POLICE.[1]Sample
- THE FIRST CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.[8]
- THE SECOND CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE THIRD CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE FOURTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE FIFTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE SIXTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE SEVENTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE EIGHTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE THIEF’S TALE.
- THE NINTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE TENTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE ELEVENTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE TWELFTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE THIRTEENTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- THE FOURTEENTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- A MERRY JEST OF A CLEVER THIEF.”
- THE TALE OF THE OLD SHARPER.”
- THE FIFTEENTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.[125]
- THE SIXTEENTH CONSTABLE’S HISTORY.
- TALE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND ABDULLAH BIN NAFI’.[131]
- THE TALE OF THE DAMSEL TOHFAT AL-KULUB AND THE CALIPH HARUN AL-RASHID.”
- WOMEN’S WILES.[258]
- NUR AL-DIN ALI OF DAMASCUS AND THE DAMSEL SITT AL-MILAH.[280]
- TALE OF KING INS BIN KAYS AND HIS DAUGHTER WITH THE SON OF KING AL-’ABBAS.[342]
- SHAHRAZAD AND SHAHRYAR.[443]
- TALE OF THE TWO KINGS AND THE WAZIR’S DAUGHTERS.”[447]
- THE CONCUBINE AND THE CALIPH.”[463]
- THE CONCUBINE OF AL-MAAMUN.”[470]
- THE SLEEPER AND THE WAKER.—Vol. I. p. 1.
- THE TEN WAZIRS; OR, THE HISTORY OF KING ÁZÁDBAKHT AND HIS SON.—Vol. I. p. 55.
- STORY OF KING DADBIN AND HIS WAZIRS. Vol. I. p. 94.
- STORY OF AYLAN SHAH AND ABU TAMMÁM.—Vol I. p. 112.
- STORY OF KING SULAYMAN SHAH AND HIS NIECE. Vol. I. p. 131.
- FIRUZ AND HIS WIFE.—Vol. I. p. 185.
- KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN. Vol. I. p. 191.
- THE ART OF ENLARGING PEARLS.—Vol. I. p. 197.
- THE SINGER AND THE DRUGGIST—Vol. I. p. 203.
- PERSIAN VERSION.
- SER GIOVANNI’S VERSION.
- STRAPAROLA’S VERSION.[491]
- INDIAN VERSION.
- SIBERIAN VERSION.
- HUNGARIAN VERSION.
- TURKISH ANALOGUE.
- THE PRINCE WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE PICTURE. Vol. I. p. 226.
- THE FULLER, HIS WIFE, AND THE TROOPER. Vol. I. p. 231.
- TALE OF THE SIMPLETON HUSBAND.—Vol. I. p. 239.
- TALE OF THE THREE MEN AND OUR LORD ISA. Vol. I. p. 250.
- THE MELANCHOLIST AND THE SHARPER. Vol. I. p. 264.
- ITALIAN VERSION.
- TALE OF THE DEVOUT WOMAN ACCUSED OF LEWDNESS.—Vol. I. p. 270.
- THE WEAVER WHO BECAME A LEACH BY ORDER OF HIS WIFE.—Vol. I. p. 282.
- STORY OF THE KING WHO LOST KINGDOM, WIFE, AND WEALTH.—Vol. I. p. 319.
- KASHMIRI VERSION.[513]
- PANJÁBÍ VERSION.
- TIBETAN VERSION.
- LEGEND OF ST. EUSTACHE.
- OLD ENGLISH “GESTA” VERSION.
- ROMANCE OF SIR ISUMBRAS.
- AL-MALIK AL-ZAHIR AND THE SIXTEEN CAPTAINS OF POLICE.—Vol. II. p. 3.
- THE THIEF’S TALE.—Vol. II. p. 42.
- THE NINTH CONSTABLE’S STORY.—Vol. II. p. 46.
- THE FIFTEENTH CONSTABLE’S STORY.—Vol. II. p. 59.
- WOMEN’S WILES.—Vol. II. p. 137.
- NUR AL-DIN AND THE DAMSEL SITT AL-MILAH. Vol. II. p. 151.
- TALE OF KING INS BIN KAYS AND HIS DAUGHTER. Vol. II. p. 191.
- FIRUZ AND HIS WIFE, p. 301.
- THE SINGER AND THE DRUGGIST, p. 305.
- THE FULLER, HIS WIFE, AND THE TROOPER, p. 329.
- INDEX.