H. N. Crellin 3 hr 13 min read

The Caliph and the pirates, the blind fisherman, the jars of ointment, a cycle of Arabian-flavored romances and adventures spun in the manner of the Thousand and One Nights.

H. N. Crellin's 1895 collection offers ornate, exotic tales in the great tradition of Eastern storytelling. Colorful, romantic, richly imagined. Read it for a graceful Victorian pastiche of the Arabian Nights, a caliph, his adventures, and a treasury of nested tales of merchants, magic, and fortune.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 13 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).