Reading Notes: Arabian Nights, Part B

Story: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

Story Source: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt

Plot Summary:

Aladdin was the son of a poor tailor. Aladdin had no craft or occupation and would spend his days playing with other boys in the street. His mom was really worried and wanted him to do something productive with his life. 

One day, Aladdin's uncle, a famous African magician, showed up out of nowhere. The magician was looking for him specifically and wanted to "help' him. The magician took Aladin around the city and into the mountains. He led Aladin to a cave, where he said there was a treasure waiting for him, and instructed him on how to get it.

The magician was not Aladdin's uncle, but he read on a book of a lamp hidden there that would make him the most powerful man in the world. Only Aladin could retrieve the lamp, so the magician planned to have him retrieve it then kill Aladdin afterward. 

Aladdin did not give him the lamp, so the magician shut him up in the cave and left. As it turns out, the ring the Magician had given Aladdin had a genie, and Aladdin used it to escape. Aladdin later found out that the lamp contained a very powerful genie, and used it to his advantage.

Aladdin later fell in love with a princess and used the genie in the lamp to summon riches beyond imagining. He also used the genie to transport the princes out of her bed and into his bed; a little weird if you ask me. 

He married the princess and build the most beautiful castle. However, the African magician found out and wanted revenge. One day while hunting, the magician disguised himself as a lamp trader. Trading old lamps for brand new ones. The princess, unknowing of the lamp's powers, traded the lamp with the genie. The magician then used the genie to transport the castle and the princess to Africa, stealing everything that was dear to Aladdin. 

Aladdin certainly noticed that the castle and his wife were gone. He tried to use the ring genie to get them back, but the genie was not that powerful. Instead, he used it to transport him to his castle, now residing in Africa. With his wife's help, he killed the magician and used the lamp's genie to transport his castle back to China.

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