Turkish Literature; Comprising Fables, Belles-lettres, and Sacred Traditions. Anonymous

His Fury, Burns Up the City of Rose Garden

       XLIII Autumn Comes From the North With the Intention of Administering the City of Rose Garden

       XLV King Winter Appears in the East and Blows His Cold Blasts Over the Earth

       XLVI King Winter Devastates the Rose Garden in a Snowstorm

       XLVII The Monarch Spring Retires to the South to the King of the Equinox, From Whom He Asks Help, and Who Immediately Assures It to Him, and He Returns Therewith to the City of Rose Garden

       XLVIII The Harbinger of Spring Gains Possession of the City of Rose Garden, Vanquishes King Winter, and Makes the Monarch of the Spring Triumphant

       XLIX The Monarch Spring Mounts Upon His Throne and Makes His Residence in the City of the Rose Garden

       L The Fair Rose Sends the East Wind to Cheer the Mourning Nightingale

       LI The Pining Nightingale Lies in Affliction in the Cage and Turns Himself to God. The Kindly East Wind Arrives and Gives Him Information as to the Condition of Affairs

       LII The Captive Nightingale Answers the Kind-hearted East Wind, Who Brings to the Pining Lover Greeting From the Radiant Rose

       LIII While the Nightingale Lies a Prisoner Suffering in His Cage, the Rose Comes to Pay Him a Sick Visit, and to Learn of His Health

       LIV The Lovely Rose Sends the Cheerful East Wind to the Monarch of Spring Asking Him to Free the Nightingale

       LV The Gracious East Wind Brings News to the Rose Of the Nightingale’s Release

       LVI Description of the Morning Feast Given by the Lovely Rose, to Which She Asks the Nightingale, and Enjoys Herself With Him in Ardent Passion And Kindness and Pure Love

       LVII The Description of the Night and the Night-long Revel Amid the Sound of Trumpets and Castanets

       LVIII The Happiness of the Rose and Nightingale Does Not Continue

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       HISTORY OF THE FORTY VEZIRS

       INTRODUCTION

       Trial of the Three Sons

       Stratagem Greater Than Strength

       The Wiles of Woman

       The Search for Khizr

       The Vezir and Khizr

       The Sherbet-seller and the Moor

       The Tailor and the Woman

       Story of the Adopted Son

       The King and the Vezir

       The Sparrow and His Mate

       The Crafty Vezir

       The Three Princes and the Cadi

       The Caliph and the Slave Girl

       The Foolish Princes

       Story of the Egyptian Prince

       The Merchant’s Bequest

       The King and the Vezir’s Son

       The King and the Weaver

       The Vicissitudes of Life

       The King and the Sheykh

       The King’s Remorse

       Luqmān’s Device

       The King and the Dervish

       Mahmūd and Hasan

       Story of Sultan Mahmūd

       Story of the Merchant’s Son

       Hasan of Basra

       The Gardener and His Son

       The Dervish’s Advice

       The Turkman Children

       A Queen’s Deceit