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Aladdin

Aladdin (1905).Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co.

Over the course of its long, complicated history, the story of Aladdin has undergone a transformation as tumultuous as the tale itself.

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Emerging from Middle Eastern oral tradition, Aladdin has made its way across the globe, changing slightly with each transmission. The story was introduced into Western discourse in the early 18th century, when French translator Antoine Galland inserted it into his translation of One Thousand and One Nights, despite the story’s absence from the original Syrian manuscript.

Galland’s popular publication spurred a host of subsequent adaptations of varying consistency and cohesion.

This 1905 version comes at a crossroads in the tale’s transmission history. The author of this book is not specified, but its plot and style align closely with Andrew Lang’s well-known 1898 translation. This text resists Galland’s original in several important ways, but remnants of the early European Aladdin: Niroot Puttapipat: 9781406316636: Amazon.com: Books XIG