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Hauff's Tales

Wilhelm Hauff

First published 1905
Publisher James Finch & Co. Limited
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages vi+430


15 stories {{tr|Sybil Thesiger}}

This is the last of seven early English-language selection-translations listed in the Encyclopedia of Fantasy biographical entry by John Clute (quote, emphasis added): He wrote three cycles of literary Fairytales – "Die Karavane" ["The Caravan"], "Der Scheik von Allesandria und seine Sklaven" ["The Sheikh of Alexandria and his Slaves"] and "Das Wirthshaus im Spessart" ["The Inn in the Spessart"] – published in three Märchenalmanache (anth 1826; anth 1827; anth 1828), selections from which have been variously translated as [... 6 others deleted ...] and Hauff's Tales (coll trans 1905 UK).


{{tr|Sybil Thesiger}} HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy probably without the original cover: -- title page -- "Introduction", p[vii] only, closes "January 1905."

WorldCat (OCLC, below) names only Hauff (in the heading/title), the translator, and the illustrator; and reports: -- 430 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations

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