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The stories are such as may be heard daily in the purlieus of Stamboul, in the small rickety houses of that essentially Turkish quarter of Constantinople where around the tandir the native women relate them to their children and friends. These tales are by no means identical with, nor do they even resemble, those others that have been assimilated by the European consciousness from Indian sources and the "ARABIAN NIGHTS." All real Turkish fairy tales are quite independent of those; rather are they related to the Western type so far as their contents and structure are concerned. Indeed, they...

Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era.

Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales is a collection of Turkish fairy tales compiled by Dr. Ignac Kunos, a Hungarian-born linguist who, having an interest in the Turkish dialect and folk tradition, collected several volumes of oral fairy tales, not through reading and study, but by travelling around the Turkish country and listening to storytellers.
In this elaborately produced volume, beautifully illustrated by Willy Pogany, Kunos describes the stories as being closer to the fairy tales of European tradition than those in Arabian Nights, seeking to dissuade his readers of any notion of...