The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
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Contents
- Introductory epistle
- Chapter I — 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
- Chapter XXXVI — Although by trade an executioner, he shows a feeling heart—He meets with a young man and woman in distress
- Chapter XXXVII — The history of Yûsûf, the Armenian, and his wife Mariam
- Chapter XXXVIII — Sequel of the foregoing history, and of the resolution which Hajji Baba takes in consequence
- Chapter XXXIX — The Armenian Yûsûf proves himself worthy of Hajji Baba's confidence
- Chapter XL — Hajji Baba gives an account of his proceedings to his superiors, and shows himself a friend to the distressed
- Chapter XLI — He describes an expedition against the Russians, and does ample justice to the cowardice of his chief
- Chapter XLII — He proceeds to the king's camp, and gives a specimen of lying on a grand scale
- Chapter XLIII — He relates a horrid tale, the consequences of which plunge him in the greatest misery
- Chapter XLIV — Hajji Baba meets with an old friend, who cheers him up, gives him good advice, and secures him from danger
- Chapter XLV — He takes refuge in a sanctuary, where his melancholy thoughts are diverted by a curious story
- Chapter XLVI — He becomes a saint, and associates with the most celebrated divine in Persia
- Chapter XLVII — Hajji Baba is robbed by his friend, and left utterly destitute; but is released from his confinement
- Chapter XLVIII — Hajji Baba reaches Ispahan, and his paternal roof, just time enough to close the eyes of his dying father
- Chapter XLIX — He becomes heir to property which is not to be found, and his suspicions thereon
- Chapter L — Showing the steps he takes to discover his property, and who the diviner, Teez Negah, was
- Chapter LI — Of the diviner's success in making discoveries, and of the resolution which Hajji Baba takes in consequence
- Chapter LII — Hajji Baba quits his mother, and becomes the scribe to a celebrated man of the law
- Chapter LIII — The mollah Nadân gives an account of his new scheme for raising money, and for making men happy
- Chapter LIV — Hajji Baba becomes a promoter of matrimony, and of the register he keeps
- Chapter LV — Of the man Hajji Baba meets, thinking him dead; and of the marriage which he brings about
- Chapter LVI — Showing how the ambition of the mollah Nadân involves both him and his disciples in ruin
- Chapter LVII — Hajji Baba meets with an extraordinary adventure in the bath, which miraculously saves him from the horrors of despair
- Chapter LVIII — Of the consequences of the adventure, which threaten danger, but end in apparent good fortune
- Chapter LIX — Hajji Baba does not shine in honesty—The life and adventures of the mollah Nadân
- Chapter LX — Hajji and the mollah make plans suited to their critical situation, showing that no confidence can exist between rogues
- Chapter LXI — The punishment due to Hajji Baba falls upon Nadân, which makes the former a staunch predestinarian
- Chapter LXII — Hajji Baba hears an extraordinary sequel to his adventure in the bath, and feels all the alarms of guilt
- Chapter LXIII — He is discovered and seized, but his good stars again befriend and set him free
- Chapter LXIV — He reaches Bagdad, meets his first master, and turns his views to commerce
- Chapter LXV — He purchases pipe-sticks, and inspires a hopeless passion in the breast of his old master's daughter
- Chapter LXVI — He becomes a merchant, leaves Bagdad, and accompanies a caravan to Constantinople
- Chapter LXVII — Hajji Baba makes a conquest of the widow of an emir, which at first alarms, but afterwards elates him
- Chapter LXVIII — He obtains an interview with the fair Shekerleb, makes a settlement upon her, and becomes her husband
- Chapter LXIX — From a vender of pipe-sticks he becomes a rich Aga, but feels all the inconvenience of supporting a false character
- Chapter LXX — His desire to excite envy lays the foundation of his disgrace—He quarrels with his wife
- Chapter LXXI — He is discovered to be an impostor, loses his wife, and the wide world is again before him
- Chapter LXXII — An incident in the street diverts his despair—He seeks consolation in the advice of old Osman
- Chapter LXXIII — In endeavouring to gain satisfaction from his enemies he acquires a friend—Some account of Mirza Firouz
- Chapter LXXIV — He becomes useful to an ambassador, who makes him a partaker of his confidence
- Chapter LXXV — Of his first essays in public life, and of the use he was to his employer
- Chapter LXXVI — Hajji Baba writes the history of Europe and with his ambassador returns to Persia
- Chapter LXXVII — The ceremony of receiving a Frank ambassador at the court is described
- Chapter LXXVIII — Hajji is noticed by the grand vizier, and is the means of gratifying that minister's favourite passion
- Chapter LXXIX — Of the manner in which he turned his influence to use, and how he was again noticed by the vizier
- Chapter LXXX — The conclusion—Misfortune seems to take leave of Hajji Baba, who returns to his native city a greater man than when he first left