title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Told in the Coffee House
Turkish Tales | | en | | How the Hodja saved Allah -- Better is the folly of woman than the wisdom of man -- The Hanoum and the unjust Cadi -- What happended to Hadji, a merchant of the Bezestan -- How the junkman travelled to find treasure in his own yard -- How Chapkin Halid became chief detective -- How cobbler Ahmet became the chief astrologer -- The wise son of Ali Pasha -- The merciful Khan -- King Kara-Kush of Bithynia -- The prayer rug and the dishonest steward -- The goose, the eye, the daughter and the arm -- The forty wise men -- How the priest knew that it would snow -- Who was the thirteenth son? -- Paradise sold by the yard -- Jew turned Turk -- The metamorphosis -- The Calif Omar -- Kalaidji Avram of Balata -- How Mehmet Ali Pasha of Egypt administered justice -- How the farmer learned to cure his wife, a Turkish Aesop -- The language of birds -- The swallow's advice -- We know not what the dawn may bring forth -- Old men made young -- The bribe -- How the Devil lost his wager -- The effects of Raki. | | Tales -- Turkey; Folklore -- Turkey | 2009-12-02 |
Turkish Prisoners in Egypt
A Report by the Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross | International Committee of the Red Cross | en | | | | | 2004-01-01 |
The Turkish Bath
Its Design and Construction | Allsop, Robert Owen | en | | | | | 2009-11-10 |
The Turkish Jester
or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi | Nasreddin, Hoca | en | This is a very rare work by George Borrow, English eccentric and polyglot. It's a translation of a collection of short stories about Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi - many of which show the Cogia's wisdom. | | Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881 [Translator] | | 2005-07-08 |
The Mystery of a Turkish Bath | Rita | en | | | | Dime novels; Juvenile fiction | 2008-05-31 |