Читать книгу The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan - James Justinian Morier - Страница 2
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ОглавлениеCHAPTER 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 V — Hajji Baba becomes a robber in his own defence, and invades his native city.
CHAPTER VII — Hajji Baba evinces a feeling disposition—History of the poet Asker.
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 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 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 XXV — The lovers meet again, and are very happy—Hajji Baba sings.
CHAPTER XXVI — The history of Zeenab, the Cûrdish slave.
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 XXXVII — The history of Yûsûf, the Armenian, and his wife Mariam.
CHAPTER XXXIX — The Armenian Yûsûf proves himself worthy of Hajji Baba's confidence.
CHAPTER XLII — He proceeds to the king's camp, and gives a specimen of lying on a grand scale.
CHAPTER XLVI — He becomes a saint, and associates with the most celebrated divine in Persia.
CHAPTER XLIX — He becomes heir to property which is not to be found, and his suspicions thereon.
CHAPTER LII — Hajji Baba quits his mother, and becomes the scribe to a celebrated man of the law.
CHAPTER LIV — Hajji Baba becomes a promoter of matrimony, and of the register he keeps.
CHAPTER LIX — Hajji Baba does not shine in honesty—The life and adventures of the mollah Nadân
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 LXVI — He becomes a merchant, leaves Bagdad, and accompanies a caravan to Constantinople.
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.