About the book: 1953 / Wilhelm Hauff - German romantic writer, author of fairy tales and stories, the humorous work "Memoirs of Satan" and the historical novel "Lichtenstein" . The best of all that Gauff has written are fairy tales. The most popular of them are included in this collection and make up three cycles: “Caravan” (“The Story of the Caliph Stork”, “The Story of the Ghost Ship”, “The Story of the Severed Hand”, “The Rescue of Fatma”, “The Story of Little Flour”, “ The Tale of the Imaginary Prince"), "The Sheikh of Alexandria and His Slaves" ("The Dwarf Nose", "The Monkey in the Role of a Man", "The Story of Almansor"), "The Tavern in Spessart" ("The Tale of the Guilder with the Image of a Deer", "Cold heart", "Stinfol Cave"). Illustrator - Tabakov, Israel Aronovich