Folk Tales and Fables of the World (Folk tales & fables)

This book holds many folk tales and fables from around the world but I did only Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp.

It concerns an impoverished young ne'er-do-well named Aladdin, in a Chinese city, who is recruited by a sorcerer from the Maghreb, who passes himself off as the brother of Aladdin's late

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father, convincing Aladdin and his mother of his goodwill by apparently making arrangements to set up the lad as a wealthy merchant.

I found this version of Aladdin was very different from Disneys, but still interesting. In this one, his mother is still alive and he knew his father. It has more of an interesting sense that Aladdin is more wild, reckless, calculating, clever and thoughtful than just lucky and clever as Disney potrays.

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