Oriental Anecdotes - S. Ulliac de Tremadeure/ F. Blanchet
Published in 1854, this delightful little 160-page book has been scanned as is. It is delivered as a PDF.
It includes 8 lithographs, 16 oriental apologues, 15 oriental anecdotes and 33 maxims. I put a sample story at the end of this presentation.
Eastern Apologues
- The Library of the King of India
- The Queen of Gor
- The royalty
- Highborn Princesses
- The two snakes
- The court of Persia
- The silent academy
- caroon
- the envious
- The insulted dervish
- All is well
- The hungry Arab
- The beggar and his son
- friends and money
- The Jew and the Christian
- The will
Oriental anecdotes
- The incorruptible eunuch
- What we gain from getting up early in the morning
- The glass of water
- The throne
- Caliph's Trait of Justice
- Beneficence of the Caliph
- Joke of a Persian poet
- The throne of Turcomans
- History of Sultan Thogrul-Ben-Arslam
- the eclipse
- Wisdom trait of a good prince
- Cosroes Parviz and Siroes
- History of Abu-Taher
- The incredulous sultan
- Mirzah's Vision
Collector's work, extremely rare text, by the magic of the internet you can have a copy.
If you like the magic of the oriental world and stories, a book to have in your collection!
Sample story:
The hungry Arab
An Arab, lost in the desert, had not eaten for 2 days, and was threatened with starvation
Passing near one of these wells where the caravans come to water their camels, he sees a small leather bag on the sand; he picks it up, he feels it "Allah be blessed! he says; they are, I believe, dates or hazelnuts."
Full of this sweet hope, he hastens to open the bag; but at the sight of what it contains: "Alas! he exclaimed painfully, they are only pearls!"
What you will receive
A PDF to download of 13 MB.