Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: An Extract From Dr. Weil's German Translation of the Arabian Nights
The following story from Dr. Gustav Weil's translation of the Arabian Nights (stuttgart, whatever objec tions may be made to it, certainly does not possess the undesirable qualities just mentioned. On the contrary, it furnishes not only good modern German of an easy kind, but a bright, interesting, uninterrupted narrative, such as novices in the study of a language are glad to find. The fact that most persons are already familiar with the tale does not, it seems to me, impair its value as an exercise for beginners; at any rate, Grimm's Marc/zen, the most successful of all texts, are open to the same objection. The common English versions of the Arabian Nights, being taken from the French, scarcely resemble our text enough to serve as literal translations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
