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The Thousand and One Nights (The Story Told by the Tailor)

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Jul 5, 2021 • 33m

Here is another of those fanciful Oriental stories that proclaims the democracy of Eastern despotism. A tailor might talk with a king and receive either a death sentence or the office of Grand Vizier as a reward. (Volume 16, Harvard Classics)

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