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[Gueulette, Thomas Simon,]
Les Mille et un quarts d'heure, contes tartars (1715).

A. a Les Mille et un quarts d'heure, contes tartars (1715).link

German:

B. 1.a Die Tausend und eine Viertel-Stunde (Leipzig: J. L. Gleditsch/ M. G. Weidmann, 1716).link
2.a [...] Anderer Theil (Leipzig: J. L. Gleditsch/ M. G. Weidmann, 1717).link
1-2.b (1722).
c (1738): {1: Xy 891}.
d (1753): {1: Xy.892}.

English:

C. 1-2.a A Thousand and one Quarters of Hours (London: J. Tonson, 1716).link
Remarks

Follows the Arabian Nightslink with histories told to the blinded king who later regained his throne and who is now waiting for a treatment to regain his sight. Full of surprising ups and downs. A foundling - of course: a borne prince - becomes a famous tailor and finally a king - a moment in which Allah initiates his fall as kings are improved by such turns: p.36: "Adversity purifies their Virtue, and they govern the better for it". The cycle of histories to be told is finally only interrupted. Numerous footnotes are designed to de-mystify the stories.

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