Powlett. Eastern Legends and Stories

Today's free book is Eastern Legends and Stories in English Verse by Norton Powlett. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Internet ArchiveHathi Trust, and Google Books.


The Bride of Empire
The Demon and the Thief
The King and the Falcon
The Mouse and the Frog
The Greedy Cat
The Old Woman and the Angel of Death
The Gardener and the Bear
The Devotee and the Jar of Honey
An Episode of Sa'di
Hajaj and his Chamberlain
The Hypocritical Cat
The Geese and the Tortoise
How the Husband of Two Wives lost his Beard
The Reward of the Architect of Khawamak
How the Crows came to be Black, and the Hoopoes to have Crowns on their Heads
How the King of Khurasan was cured of the Rheumatism