Some of the best-loved stories in the world, originating in Persia, India and Arabia, retold especially for children.
This book is part of a book series called Puffin Classics .
There are 208 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 1996 by Penguin Books Ltd .
Editor N. J. Dawood (27 August 1927 - 20 November 2014) was an Iraqi-Jewish translator whose lively and poetic English translation of The Koran has never been out of print.
This book contains the following story:
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
From A Thousand and One Nights comes the tale of Aladdin, an impoverished young lad in a Chinese town. Persuaded by the evil sorcerer Maghreb to retrieve a magic lamp containing a genie, the tale then follows the escapades of Aladdin and Maghreb as they fight to own the lamp and the magic it contains.