Today's free book is Oriental splendour: an anthology of Eastern tales by Herbert Van Thal (1953). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.
The book is available at Internet Archive (I have not checked for other online sources).
Table of Contents
ARABIA
The Sleeper and the Waker
The Tailor and the Lady and the Captain
BURMA
Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp
CAMBODIA
The Story of the Man with a Knife
CEYLON
The Thief and his Son
CHINA
Miss Ying-Ning, or the Laughing Girl
The Courtesan
The Three Dedicated Chambers
EGYPT
The Peasant and the Workman
The Story of ’Arab-Zandiq
INDIA
Four Tales from the Panchatantra
The Thief who Laughed and Wept
The First Tale from the Dravidian Nights Entertainment
The Farmer, His Wife, and the Open Door
The Story of the Wonderful Mango-Fruit
A Bear Marries a Girl
The Hungry Stones
JAPAN
The Eta Maiden and the Hatamoto
The Hojoki
The Young Tattooer
MOROCCO
The Merchant’s Daughter and the Sultan’s Son
PERSIA
The. Story of Sohrab
The Khazi of Emessa
SIAM
The Goldsmith
