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Arabian Nights   Bibliography: Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang  arabian-nights-merchant-and-genius.html This story starts with a young poor women. She did not have any money and would have to steal to get food to live off of. She admired the prince that lived in the town and yearned to get to know him. He came into the town to get too know the people he ruled over. during that time he ran into the poor women who lived in the town. He thought she was lovely but knew he couldn't like her because she was a women that lived on the streets with all the commoners which was not allowed. So he went back to his castle.  The women was taken to a cave to find treasure for a man, he was too large to go in so he needed a women to go to retrieve what he wanted. The women went in and found the lamp that he was looking for and brought it back up for the man. But the women got away and took the lamp with her, leaving the man behind. The women wished to be a princess so she could marry the p...

Arabian Nights   Bibliography: Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang  arabian-nights-merchant-and-genius.html An old man was wandering around a city when someone came up to him and accused him of killing his son. The man said he did not do it but he said he did and he threatened to kill him as punishment. The man begged to say good bye to his family. The old man asked to tell him a story and if he still wanted to kill him after he could.  The wife of this man killed his slave and sent away his son. The women splashed water on the calf and it turned into a young man again. The son went away and the man continued to search for him.  The next story he told included three brothers. The oldest brother travelled. The second brother sold all his stuff and wished to travel as well so he did so. The brothers travelled and came upon a seaport. A women came up tot the man and asked him to marry her. The man began to love her a lot and it made his brothers very jealous. The women turned...