The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag or the Sleeper Awakened part 9
He then extended Nouzatalfuad, and did with her as she had done with him; after which he tore his vest, and plucked his beard,...
The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag or the Sleeper Awakened part 8
He answered, We will feign ourselves dead. I will die before thee, and lay myself out: then do thou spread over me a napkin...
The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag or the Sleeper Awakened part 6
Then the slave girls led him by the hand to the drinking chamber, where he saw what astonished the mind; and he continued to...
The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag or the Sleeper Awakened part 5
And while he was in this state, lo, one of the mamlouks came in and said to him, O Prince of the Faithful, the...
The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag or the Sleeper Awakened part 4
So a eunuch said to him, O my lord, this is not thy usual custom, O Prince of the Faithful. And he was perplexed...
The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag or the Sleeper Awakened part 2
Thus he continued to do for a whole year; after which, as he was sitting one day upon the bridge as usual, to see...
The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag or the Sleeper Awakened part 1
Abou Hassan the Wag (Anonymous: ioth to 14th Century, A.D.)
The chief glory of Arabian prose literature is the celebrated collec-tion known to us as...
One Night part 4
A night-watchman loomed up in front of me. “I come,” I said, “to get you to see about a theft which has just been...
One Night part 3
Suddenly I saw, right before my eyes, the inn where we were staying. Trembling, I put the key in the lock. What awaited me...
One Night part 2
The darkness grew thicker and thicker. Unbroken chains of lights glowed along the thoroughfares. One belfry after another awoke and great bells began to...
