Dec 16, 2009
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan | The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
At a glance:
- Author: James Justinian Morier
- First Published: 1824
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque romance
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: Persia
- Principal Characters: Hajji Baba, Osman Agha, Zeenab
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Tricks, Love or romance, Escapes, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Barbershops or barbers, Robbery or robbers, Rulers, Cruelty, Adventure, Middle East, Merchants
- Locales: Persia
The Story:
Hajji Baba was the son of a successful barber of Ispahan. By the
time he was sixteen, he had learned the barber’s trade as
well as a store of bazaar tales and quotations from the Persian
poets. With these, he entertained the customers who came to his
father’s shop, among them a wealthy Turkish merchant named
Osman Agha, who was on his way to Meshed to buy goatskins of
Bokhara. This merchant was so impressed with Hajji Baba that he
begged the young man to accompany him on the journey. With his
father’s blessing and a case of razors, Hajji Baba set out
with his...
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