Oriental Tales

“It has long been a subject of regret, that no prudent persons, interested in the education can venture to place in the hands of their pupils the “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.” These beautiful fictions of the East, though highly moral, that a careful selection from them has been a work much wanted in education for nearly a century.

The volumes at present offered to the public contain those tales of the Arabian Nights from which the best moral can be extracted, abridged, and divested of the endless tautologies and interruptions. As every brilliant passage and amusing incident are carefully preserved in such Tales as are abridged, the author trusts that the present selection will give pleasure to readers of all ages.” – Excerpt from the authors Preface