Strange

The Shaving of Shagpat

by George Meredith

An Arabian-Nights pastiche in which a barber’s apprentice must shave the magical hair of Shagpat the clothier. Meredith’s first novel is ornate, comic and completely unlike anything else he wrote.

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #4405. In the public domain in the United States.