Turkish Evening Entertainments

Author : Ahmed Ibn Hemdem the Ketkhoda
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ISBN 13 : 9781331818243
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Turkish Evening Entertainments written by Ahmed Ibn Hemdem the Ketkhoda and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Turkish Evening Entertainments: The Wonders of Remarkable Incidents and the Rarities of Anecdotes The manuscript of the following translation was sent to me by Mr. Brown, with the request that I would offer it to some publisher, in his name. It may, therefore, be proper for me to introduce it to the reader with a brief statement of the circumstances under which it was prepared, and is now presented to the public. The translator has resided for several years in Constantinople, as Dragoman of the United States Legation at the Ottoman Porte; and this work of Suheily having been published in that city in 1840, Mr. Brown, at an early period of his residence there, formed the design of translating it, in which he was encouraged by the approbation of the celebrated orientalist Baron Yon Hammer, who characterized the work as "by far the most interesting book that has been published at Constantinople for a long time." It is but justice to Mr. Brown, however, to add, that he does not claim to have made a translation which, in all respects, meets the demands of the scholar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.