Oriental Romances
By: edited  with an introduction by Manuel Komroff.
Series: The modern library of the world's best books
Publisher: The Modern library
Published: 1930
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover with a paper dust jacket.
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Tales -- Asia.
Notes: "First Modern library edition."
Table of contents: title: The Three Deceitful Women (Persia); title: Adventures of Pramati (India); title: Baar Danesh or Garden of Knowledge (Persia); title: Lessons in Love (Persia); title: The Three Haschich Eaters (Arabia); title: Utpalavarna (Tibet); title: Adventures of Mitragupta (India); title: The Eta Maiden and the Hatamoto (Japan); title: The Kazi of Ghazni and the Merchant's Wife (Persia); title: All for a Pansa (Kashmir); title: How Hind Revenged Herself (Arabia); title: The Wisdom of Visakha (Tibet); title: The Vampire's Stories (India); title: The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki (Japan); title: The Princess Zelica (Arabia); title: Marriage of Avantisundari (India); title: How Yunus the Scribe Sold His Slave Girl (Arabia); title: The Faithful Wife of the King's Attendant (Turkey); title: The Lovers Who Died of Love (Arabia); title: The Forty-Seven Ronin (Japan); title: The Old Pair of Slippers (Arabia); title: The Envious Vazir (Persia); title: >>>; title: The editor, Manuel Komroff, provided the source of each tale:; title: 1, 9, 22:  Persia ~ Translated by Edward Rehatsek from the Persian "Mahbub al-Kalub," edited by W. A. Clouston in "A Group of Eastern Romances and Stories."; title: 3, 4:  Persia ~ From "Tales Translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi."; title: 2, 7, 16:  India ~ From "Hindoo Tales" or "The Adventures of Ten Princes," translated from the Sanscrit work entitled "Dasakumaracharitam" by P. W. Jacob.; title: 13:  India ~ From "Vikram and the Vampire," adapted by Richard Burton.; title: 6, 12:  Tibet ~ From "Tibethan Tales," translated from the Tibetan sacred "Kah-Gyur" by F. Anton Von Schiefner and W. R. S. Ralston.; title: 8, 14, 20:  Japan ~ Translated by A. B. Mitford, in "Tales of Old Japan."; title: 10:  Kashmir ~ From "Folk Tales of Kashmir," translated by J. Hinton Knowles.; title: 11, 17, 19:  Arabia ~ Translated from the Arabic "'Ilam-en-nas" by Mrs. Godfrey Clerk.; title: 18:  Turkey ~ From "Turkish Evening Entertainments," translated by John P. Brown.; title: ~