Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp: FROM THE AUTHOR OF BOOKS LIKE: The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters / Myths and Legends of All Nations: Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sources / The Wonder Book of Bible Stories / The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland / The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado / The story of polar conquest: / Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls / Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War: Including the Destruction of the Lusitania / Fairy Tales of Many Lands / The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters: SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic / The Story of the Panama Canal / Mother Goose Rhymes and Favorite Tales / Puss-In-Boots / A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict / Cinderella and many more
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John Payne quotes passages from Galland's unpublished diary: recording Galland's encounter with a Maronite storyteller from Aleppo, Hanna Diyab. According to Galland's diary, he met with Hanna, who had travelled from Aleppo to Paris with celebrated French traveller Paul Lucas, on March 25, 1709. Galland's diary further reports that his transcription of "Aladdin" for publication occurred in the winter of 1709–10. It was included in his volumes ix and x of the Nights, published in 1710, without any mention or published acknowledgment of Hanna's contribution.
Payne also records the discovery in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris of two Arabic manuscripts containing Aladdin (with two more of the "interpolated" tales). One was written by a Syrian Christian priest living in Paris, named Dionysios Shawish, alias Dom Denis Chavis. The other is supposed to be a copy Mikhail Sabbagh made of a manuscript written in Baghdad in 1703. It was purchased by the Bibliothèque Nationale at the end of the nineteenth century. As part of his work on the first critical edition of the Nights, Iraq's Muhsin Mahdi has shown that both these manuscripts are "back-translations" of Galland's text into Arabic.
Ruth B. Bottigheimer and Paulo Lemos Horta have argued that Hanna Diyab should be understood as the original author of some of the stories he supplied, and even that several of Diyab's stories (including Aladdin) were partly inspired by Diyab's own life, as there are parallels with his autobiography.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF BOOKS LIKE:
1. The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
2. Myths and Legends of All Nations: Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sources
3. The Wonder Book of Bible Stories
4. The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland
5. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado
6. The story of polar conquest
7. Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls
8. Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War: Including the Destruction of the Lusitania
9. Fairy Tales of Many Lands
10. The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters: SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic
11. The Story of the Panama Canal
12. Mother Goose Rhymes and Favorite Tales
13. Puss-In-Boots
14. A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict
15. Cinderella
About the author : Logan Marshall, was the pen name of Logan Howard-Smith of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Howard-Smith was the son of Robert Spurrier and Elizabeth Howard-Smith. The father was an executive of Link-Belt. Howard-Smith attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1905.
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