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.