The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour: Tartarian Tales

Excerpt from The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour: Tartarian TalesThe tale of the Three crump-brothers he acknowledges to have borrowed from the novels of Straparola; but asserts that it cost him great trouble to vary and adapt it to his own purposes. Several' other novels, however, furnished subjects for these tales, amongst which Le Grand notices several fabliaux, viz., the Judgment of Solomon, the Lay of Hippocrates, and Le Chevalier de la Trappe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.