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Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp |
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| Author
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John Payne
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| Category
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Fantasy
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| Language
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English
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om Hanna's lips and by the aid of copious summaries made at the time. These
entries in Galland's diary dispose, therefore, of the question of the origin
of the "interpolated" tales, with the exception (1) of The Sleeper
Awakened (with which we need not, for the present, concern ourselves farther)
and (2) of Nos. 1 and 2a and b, i.e. Zeyn Alasnam, Codadad and his brothers
and The Princess of Deryabar (forming, with Ganem, his eighth volume), as to
which Galland, as I pointed out in my terminal essay (p. 264), cautions us,
in a prefatory note to his ninth volume, that these two stories form no part
of the Thousand and One Nights and that they had been inserted and printed without
the cognizance of the translator, who was unaware of the trick that had been
played him till after the actual publication of the volume, adding that care
would be taken to expunge the intrusive tales from the second edition (which,
however, was never done, Galland dying before the republication and it being
probably found that the stra
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