THE ATHENAEUMThe Adventures of Hajji Baba of IspahanJames Morier
Comedy
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textJames Morier spent years in Persia as a British diplomat, and in 1824 turned what he saw into the picaresque life of a barber’s son of Isfahan who is in turn a captive of Turcoman raiders, a doctor’s servant, an officer of the chief executioner and a diplomat. A Persian translation by Mirza Habib Isfahani, published in 1905, is admired in Iran as a classic of Persian prose. Hajji Baba has every gift but honesty.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 12 hr 25 min
- Where to find it
- On the Comedy shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #21331. In the public domain in the United States.