Fables of the East selected tales, 1662-1785 /
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2005.
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Table of Contents:
- From The Arabian nights entertainments, 'translated' by Antoine Galland (1704-1715)
- 'The fable of the mouse, that was changed into a little girl' from The fables of Pilpay, translated by Joseph Harris (1699)
- 'The history of Commladeve' from Tales, from the Inatulla of Delhi, translated by Alexander Dow (1768)
- 'The adventures of Urad' from James Ridley, Tales of the genii (1764)
- 'The history of the Christian eunuch' from Eliza Haywood, Philidore and Placentia (1727)
- Joseph Addison, Spectator, no. 512, 12 October 1712
- Horace Walpole, 'Mi Li, a Chinese fairy tale' from Hieroglyphic tales (1785)
- 'A voyage to Kachemire, the paradise of Indostan' from François Bernier, A continuation of the memories of Monsieur Bernier, translated by Henry Oxenberg (1672)
- From The general history of the Mogol Empire, compiled by François Catrou from the memoirs of Niccolo Manucci (1709)
- From Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M...y W...y M...e (1763)
- From Giovanni Paolo Marana, The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, translated by William Bradshaw (1687-1694)
- From Charles Secondat de Montesquieu, Persian letters, translated by Charles Ozell (1722)
- From Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world (1762).