Name: Murad the Unlucky, and Other Tales
Author: Maria Edgeworth
ISBN: 978-1631454592

Literature & Fiction | Mythology & Folk Tales

Murad the Unlucky, and Other Tales

By Maria Edgeworth 24 Oct, 2020

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It is well known that the grand seignior amuses himself by going at night, in disguise, through streets of Constantinople; as the caliph Haroun Alraschid used formerly to do in Bagdad. One moonlight night, accompanied by his grand vizier, he traversed several of the principal streets of the city without seeing anything remarkable. At length, as they were passing a rope-maker’s, the sultan recollected the Arabian story of Cogia-Hassan Alhabal, the rope-maker, and his two friends, Saad and Saadi, who differed so much in their opinion concerning the influence of fortune over human affairs. Less

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Maria Edgeworth

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Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a sig...

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