Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

by N.J. Dawood (Translator, Adapted By)

Genres: Fiction

64 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

Nessim Joseph Dawood (Arabic: نعيم جوزيف داوود) was born in 1927 in Baghdad, Iraq. He emigrated to England in 1945 as an Iraq State scholar, and settled there. He graduated from the University of London. He is known for his English translations of the Qur’an, Tales from the One Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) and his edition of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun. (from Wikipedia).

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice and easy children's book with short and easy renditions of classic stories.