Wilhelm Hauf is a German novelist, author of fairy tales and stories, the humorous work Memoirs of Satan, and the historical novel Liechtenstein. The best of all Gauf's writings are fairy tales. The most popular of them are included in this collection and make up three cycles: "Caravan" ("The Tale of the Caliph of the Stork" , "The Tale of the Ghost Ship" (CM) "The Story of the Cut-Off Hand" , "Salvation of Fatma" , "The Story of Little Flour" (CM) "The Tale of the Imaginary Prince" , "The Alexandrian Sheik and His Slaves" (Dwarf Nose,) "The Monkey as a Man" (CM) "The History of Almansor" , "The Nutcracker in Spessart" ("The Tale of the Gulden with the Image of a Deer" CM) "The Cold Heart" (CM) "The Stinfol Cave" . Illustrator - Tabakov, Israel Aronovich