Curt Moreck 2 hr 4 min read

The poor tailor's son, the genie of the lamp, and a fortune conjured from nothing, the Arabian Nights favorite, richly illustrated in German.

This 1919 German edition of 'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp,' with plates by F. Staeger, retells the beloved tale of the idle boy of a Chinese city whose luck turns on a magic lamp. A handsome period presentation of one of the world's most enduring fantasy stories. Read it for the timeless magic of Aladdin, in a beautifully made edition of the Arabian Nights classic.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 4 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Ferdinand Staeger