The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan. James Justinian Morier

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE

       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.