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- THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN
- ILLUSTRATED BY H.R. MILLAR
- WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE HON. GEORGE CURZON, M.P.
- MACMILLAN AND CO. LONDON AND NEW YORK
- MACMILLAN AND CO. LONDON AND NEW YORK
- 1895
- WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE HON. GEORGE CURZON, M.P.
- WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE HON. GEORGE CURZON, M.P.
- MACMILLAN AND CO. LONDON AND NEW YORK
- MACMILLAN AND CO. LONDON AND NEW YORK
- 1895
- INTRODUCTION
- INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE
- ILLUSTRATED BY H.R. MILLAR
- THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA
- CHAPTER I — Of Hajji Baba's birth and education.
- CHAPTER II — Hajji Baba commences his travels—His encounter with the Turcomans, and his captivity.
- CHAPTER III — Into what hands Hajji Baba falls, and the fortune which his razors proved to him.
- CHAPTER IV — Of his ingenuity in rescuing his master's money from the Turcoman, and of his determination to keep it.
- CHAPTER V — Hajji Baba becomes a robber in his own defence, and invades his native city.
- CHAPTER VI — Concerning the three prisoners taken by the Turcomans, and of the booty made in the caravanserai.
- CHAPTER VII — Hajji Baba evinces a feeling disposition—History of the poet Asker.
- CHAPTER VIII — Hajji Baba escapes from the Turcomans—The meaning of 'falling from the frying-pan into the fire' illustrated.
- CHAPTER IX — Hajji Baba, in his distress, becomes a saka, or water-carrier.
- CHAPTER X — He makes a soliloquy, and becomes an itinerant vendor of smoke.
- CHAPTER XI — History of Dervish Sefer, and of two other dervishes.
- CHAPTER XII — Hajji Baba finds that fraud does not remain unpunished, even in this world—He makes fresh plans.
- CHAPTER XIII — Hajji Baba leaves Meshed, is cured of his sprain, and relates a story.
- CHAPTER XIV — Of the man he meets, and the consequences of the encounter.
- CHAPTER XV — Hajji Baba reaches Tehran, and goes to the poet's house.
- CHAPTER XVI — He makes plans for the future, and is involved in a quarrel.
- CHAPTER XVII — He puts on new clothes, goes to the bath, and appears in a new character.
- CHAPTER XVIII — The poet returns from captivity—the consequences of it for Hajji Baba.
- CHAPTER XIX — Hajji Baba gets into the service of the king's physician—Of the manner he was first employed by him.
- CHAPTER XX — He succeeds in deceiving two of the faculty, getting a pill from one, and a piece of gold from the other.
- CHAPTER XXI — He describes the manner in which the Shah of Persia takes medicine.
- CHAPTER XXII — Hajji Baba asks the doctor for a salary, and of the success of his demand.
- CHAPTER XXIII — He becomes dissatisfied with his situation, is idle, and falls in love.
- CHAPTER XXIV — He has an interview with the fair Zeenab, who relates how she passes her time in the doctor's harem.
- CHAPTER XXV — The lovers meet again, and are very happy—Hajji Baba sings.
- CHAPTER XXVI — The history of Zeenab, the Cûrdish slave.
- CHAPTER XXVII — Of the preparations made by the chief physician to receive the Shah as his guest, and of the great expense which threatened him.
- CHAPTER XXVIII — Concerning the manner of the Shah's reception; of the present made him, and the conversation which ensued.
- CHAPTER XXIX — A description of the entertainment, which is followed by an event destructive to Hajji Baba's happiness.
- CHAPTER XXX — Hajji Baba meets with a rival in the Shah himself, and loses the fair object of his affections.
- CHAPTER XXXI — His reflections on the loss of Zeenab—He is suddenly called upon to exert his skill as a doctor.
- CHAPTER XXXII — Hajji is appointed to a situation under government—He becomes an executioner.
- CHAPTER XXXIII — He accompanies the Shah to his camp, and gets some insight into his profession.
- CHAPTER XXXIV — Employed in his official capacity, Hajji Baba gives a specimen of Persian despotism.
- CHAPTER XXXV — Fortune, which pretended to frown, in fact smiles upon Hajji Baba, and promotes him to be sub-lieutenant to the chief executioner.
- CHAPTER XXXVI — Although by trade an executioner, he shows a feeling heart—He meets with a young man and woman in distress.
- CHAPTER XXXVII — The history of Yûsûf, the Armenian, and his wife Mariam.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII — Sequel of the foregoing history, and of the resolution which Hajji Baba takes in consequence.
- CHAPTER XXXIX — The Armenian Yûsûf proves himself worthy of Hajji Baba's confidence.
- CHAPTER XL — Hajji Baba gives an account of his proceedings to his superiors, and shows himself a friend to the distressed.
- CHAPTER XLI — He describes an expedition against the Russians, and does ample justice to the cowardice of his chief.
- CHAPTER XLII — He proceeds to the king's camp, and gives a specimen of lying on a grand scale.
- CHAPTER XLIII — He relates a horrid tale, the consequences of which plunge him in the greatest misery.
- CHAPTER XLIV — Hajji Baba meets with an old friend, who cheers him up, gives him good advice, and secures him from danger.
- CHAPTER XLV — He takes refuge in a sanctuary, where his melancholy thoughts are diverted by a curious story.
- CHAPTER XLVI — He becomes a saint, and associates with the most celebrated divine in Persia.
- CHAPTER XLVII — Hajji Baba is robbed by his friend, and left utterly destitute; but is released from his confinement.
- CHAPTER XLVIII — Hajji Baba reaches Ispahan, and his paternal roof, just time enough to close the eyes of his dying father.
- CHAPTER XLIX — He becomes heir to property which is not to be found, and his suspicions thereon.
- CHAPTER L — Showing the steps he takes to discover his property, and who the diviner, Teez Negah, was.
- CHAPTER LI — Of the diviner's success in making discoveries, and of the resolution which Hajji Baba takes in consequence.
- CHAPTER LII — Hajji Baba quits his mother, and becomes the scribe to a celebrated man of the law.
- CHAPTER LIII — The mollah Nadân gives an account of his new scheme for raising money, and for making men happy.
- CHAPTER LIV — Hajji Baba becomes a promoter of matrimony, and of the register he keeps.
- CHAPTER LV — Of the man Hajji Baba meets, thinking him dead; and of the marriage which he brings about.
- CHAPTER LVI — Showing how the ambition of the mollah Nadân involves both him and his disciples in ruin.
- CHAPTER LVII — Hajji Baba meets with an extraordinary adventure in the bath, which miraculously saves him from the horrors of despair.
- CHAPTER LVIII — Of the consequences of the adventure, which threaten danger, but end in apparent good fortune.
- CHAPTER LIX — Hajji Baba does not shine in honesty—The life and adventures of the mollah Nadân
- CHAPTER LX — Hajji and the mollah make plans suited to their critical situation, showing that no confidence can exist between rogues.
- CHAPTER LXI — The punishment due to Hajji Baba falls upon Nadân, which makes the former a staunch predestinarian.
- CHAPTER LXII — Hajji Baba hears an extraordinary sequel to his adventure in the bath, and feels all the alarms of guilt.
- CHAPTER LXIII — He is discovered and seized, but his good stars again befriend and set him free.
- CHAPTER LXIV — He reaches Bagdad, meets his first master, and turns his views to commerce.
- CHAPTER LXV — He purchases pipe-sticks, and inspires a hopeless passion in the breast of his old master's daughter.
- CHAPTER LXVI — He becomes a merchant, leaves Bagdad, and accompanies a caravan to Constantinople.
- CHAPTER LXVII — Hajji Baba makes a conquest of the widow of an emir, which at first alarms, but afterwards elates him.
- CHAPTER LXVIII — He obtains an interview with the fair Shekerleb, makes a settlement upon her, and becomes her husband.
- CHAPTER LXIX — From a vender of pipe-sticks he becomes a rich Aga, but feels all the inconvenience of supporting a false character.
- CHAPTER LXX — His desire to excite envy lays the foundation of his disgrace—He quarrels with his wife.
- CHAPTER LXXI — He is discovered to be an impostor, loses his wife, and the wide world is again before him.
- CHAPTER LXXII — An incident in the street diverts his despair—He seeks consolation in the advice of old Osman.
- CHAPTER LXXIII — In endeavouring to gain satisfaction from his enemies he acquires a friend—Some account of Mirza Firouz.
- CHAPTER LXXIV — He becomes useful to an ambassador, who makes him a partaker of his confidence.
- CHAPTER LXXV — Of his first essays in public life, and of the use he was to his employer.
- CHAPTER LXXVI — Hajji Baba writes the history of Europe and with his ambassador returns to Persia.
- CHAPTER LXXVII — The ceremony of receiving a Frank ambassador at the court is described.
- CHAPTER LXXVIII — Hajji is noticed by the grand vizier, and is the means of gratifying that minister's favourite passion.
- CHAPTER LXXIX — Of the manner in which he turned his influence to use, and how he was again noticed by the vizier.
- CHAPTER LXXX — The conclusion—Misfortune seems to take leave of Hajji Baba, who returns to his native city a greater man than when he first left.
- P.P.
- P.P.
- FOOTNOTES.
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