Alibaba o Challish Chor: MyStoryGenie Bengali Audiobook Album 69: Alibaba & the 40 thieves

"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" is a folk tale in Arabic, added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by it's French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab. As one of the most popular Arabian Nights tales, it has been widely retold and performed in many media worldwide, especially for children. In the original version, Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter and an honest person who discovers the secret of a thieves' den, and enters with the magic phrase "open sesame". The thieves try to kill Ali Baba, but his faithful slave girl foils their plots. His son marries her, and Ali Baba keeps the treasure's secret.

The following audiobook adaptation in Bengali is based on the translation work, penned by the late Jogendranath Sarkar, a renowned children’s fiction writer of the classical era. Enjoy this treatise with your children and revisit your childhood fantasy world, at your leisure. Discover more such Bengali audio stories by typing mystorygenie in the search bar without leaving space between the different English alphabets.

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Release date

Audiobook: 15 June 2024