Here is the traditional version from The Thousand and One Nights. Aladdin, the son of a poor family in China, meets a mysterious Moor who leads him to an enchanted cave in search of a magic lamp. When Aladdin will not hand over the lamp, the Moor leaves him in the dark to die. So begins a feud that takes Aladdin on an adventurous journey from the Sultan's palace in China to Northern Africa.
This book is part of a book series called Childrens Classics .
There are 2 pages in this book. This book was published 1995 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.
