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The habit of teliing stories is one of the most primitive characteristics of the humán race. The most ancient civilizations, the most barbarous savages, of whom we have any knowledge have yielded to investigators clear traces of the possession of this practise. The specimens of their narrative...

The stories in this volume are true stories, andhave been arranged in chronological order, anarrangement that will aid the reader to rememberthe times to which the stories relate.Almost any encyclopedia can be consulted forgeneral details of the life stories of the interestingpeople whose names...

INTRODUCTORY NOTE"The Thousand and One Nights" is one of the great story-books of the world. It was introduced to European readers by the French scholar Galland, who discovered the Arabic original and translated it into French in the first decade of the eighteenth century; but its earlier history...

Lapélek enyhén foltosak. Könyvgerinc mentén a műbőr több helyen szakadt, sérült. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true...