Oriental fables, passed off as translations from the Persian, in which genii test mortals and reward virtue over vice.
Books that mention Tales of the Genii (2)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time,--they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii,--and did me no harm; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me; I knew nothing of it.”
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens: “Then, my precious child, the fun of it is that nobody knows who these Veneerings are, and that they know nobody, and that they have a house out of the Tales of the Genii, and give dinners out of the Arabian Nights.”