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Description
Contains four later tales from "The Arabian Nights", in a new translation. The stories, a mixture of magic, humour and love, include "The Story of Sindbad the Sailor", "The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "The Story of Ala al-din and the Magic Lamp", and "the Story of Qamar al-Zaman.
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First Sentence
There lived in Baghdad, in the time of the Commander of the Faithful, the Caliph Harun al-Rashid, a man called Sindbad the Porter, who was poor and who carried loads on his head for hire.
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- Husain Haddawy (Author)
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