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Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
The ragamuffin Aladdin finds an old lamp which makes his fortune; a prince disappears on a flying horse; a falcon proves wiser than a king. These eleven tales, which provided daily entertainment in Indian, Persia and Arabia over a thousand years ago
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