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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

No. of pages 64

Published: 1996

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This book is part of a book series called Penguin Childrens 60s .

There are 64 pages in this 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:

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
There was once two brothers called Ali Baba and Cassim. Whilst Cassim married a rich woman, Ali Baba married poor and worked as a woodcutter. One day Ali observed forty men entering and then leaving a cave weighed down with gold. He tried the secret password - open sesame - and was able to gain entrance and fill his own bags with gold. His wife was delighted but when his broteher discovered the secret he too wanted the gold. Ali gave him the secret password, and Cassim managed to enter the cave but once inside was so distracted by the gold he could not remember the password to escape. Whilst he was stuck in the cave the robbers returned and deprived him of his gold and his life.

This book is in the following series:

Penguin Childrens 60s