Merchants crossing the desert pass the time with stories, and so begin the linked fairy tales Wilhelm Hauff wrote before his death at twenty-four. A caliph and his vizier are turned into storks by a magic word they forget, and travellers at an inn and guests at a palace add tales of their own, translated here for American readers.
Some of the finest German literary fairy tales, as enchanting for adults as for children. Download the free EPUB.