Clouston, a leading Victorian student of the migration of stories, gathers romances translated from Persian, Tamil and Urdu, many by Edward Rehatsek. Nassar, son of a Baghdad merchant, learns from three pieces of advice, while tales of Hatim Tai, foolish hermits, treacherous viziers and the unlucky Shoayb are nested inside one another, with notes tracing their parallels in Europe.
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