Complete and unabridged, with 31 full-page plates by Jean-Léon Gérôme, David Roberts and John Frederick Lewis. A barber's son of Ispahan lies, flatters and betrays his way up through the Persia of the Shah — physician, executioner's assistant, secretary, envoy — and reports it all cheerfully. Morier had been a diplomat in Tehran and published this in 1824; Persians long believed it was written by one of their own to shame them. It is the best picaresque novel in English about a country the English barely knew. Thirty-one plates of Persian and Orientalist painting by Gérôme, Roberts and others, dating 1814 to 1900, picture the bazaars, deserts and courts that Hajji Baba moves through.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan : A Persian Rogue's Progress
Écrit par James Justinian Morier
