Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Images
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp; Free Pictures You may know this fairy tale under many different titles: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Aladdin and His Magic Lamp, History of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp, or simply Aladdin. In each case, we are dealing with a fairy tale from Arabian Nights (1001 Nights), a classic story with a controversial background. Some scholars, for instance, believe it never belonged to the corpus of fairy tales from Arabian Nights (just like Ali Baba and 40 Thieves) and was inserted by Antoine Galland because he saw its commercial potential in the popularity of Arabian Nights. Some even believe he wrote it by himself. Everybody can see that something is definitely off with Aladdin which is set in China, not in Persia or some of the Arabian countries like the rest of the stories from the collection. Anyway, it's a great story that inspired countless artists from Andersen's first fairy tale Tinderbox to Disney's blockbusters, and, of course, many ill...