Island Nights Entertainments (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Island Nights Entertainments<br/><br/>Honolulu, as being, in its ingenuity and imagina tive qualities, singularly like the Hawaiian tales. No doubt Fitzball's melodrama difi'ered widely from the original German Bottle Imp; certainly there was very little resemblance between his ver sion and my husband's story that was meant to appeal more particularly to the native mind. The tale was first published in England in Black and White, and then translated by one of the mission aries into the Samoan tongue for the Sulu (the torch of Samoa) under the title of 0 Le Fangu Aim, running in weekly numbers as a serial.<br/><br/>About the Publisher<br/><br/>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br/><br/>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.