Only a handful of tales have survived from the earliest collections of “The Book of One Thousand and One Nights”: stories that do not belong to the “Egyptian” edition and are preserved in only a few manuscripts of separate “nights” volumes, or that exist as standalone tales—though they, too, are divided into “nights.” Among these are the most popular fairy tales among European readers: “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp,” “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” “The Tale of Sindbad the Sailor,” and some others. The Arabic originals of these tales were available to Galland, the first translator of “One Thousand and One Nights,” and it was based on his translation that they became known in Europe.