The Shaving of Shagpat


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(4.6 stars; 4 reviews)

The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. (Summary by Wikipedia.)

“The variety of scenes and images, the untiring evolution of plot, the kaleidoscopic shifting of harmonious colours, all these seem of the very essence of Arabia, and to coil directly from some bottle of a genie. Ah! what a bottle!” -Edmund Gosse in Gossip in a Library (9 hr 4 min)

Chapters

01 - Ch. 01, Part 1 21:10 Read by Matthew Reece
02 - Ch. 01, Part 2 18:25 Read by Matthew Reece
03 - Ch. 02, Part 1 31:40 Read by Amy Gramour
04 - Ch. 02, Part 2 33:11 Read by Amy Gramour
05 - Ch. 02, Part 3 36:04 Read by Amy Gramour
06 - Ch. 02, Part 4 36:13 Read by Amy Gramour
07 - Ch. 03 18:09 Read by Matthew Reece
08 - Ch. 04 13:40 Read by Gabriel Glenn
09 - Ch. 05 14:30 Read by Gabriel Glenn
10 - Ch. 06 8:55 Read by Gabriel Glenn
11 - Ch. 07 11:18 Read by Gabriel Glenn
12 - Ch. 08 12:30 Read by Amy Gramour
13 - Ch. 09 11:33 Read by Amy Gramour
14 - Ch. 10 13:16 Read by Mich_elle
15 - Ch. 11, Part 1 15:32 Read by Mich_elle
16 - Ch. 11, Part 2 18:27 Read by Mich_elle
17 - Ch. 12, Part 1 18:21 Read by Amy Gramour
18 - Ch. 12, Part 2 17:55 Read by Amy Gramour
19 - Ch. 13 14:47 Read by Matthew Reece
20 - Ch. 14 19:19 Read by Matthew Reece
21 - Ch. 15 7:34 Read by Matthew Reece
22 - Ch. 16 13:44 Read by Amy Gramour
23 - Ch. 17 9:15 Read by Gabriel Glenn
24 - Ch. 18 9:13 Read by Gabriel Glenn
25 - Ch. 19 7:29 Read by Gabriel Glenn
26 - Ch. 20 15:28 Read by Gabriel Glenn
27 - Ch. 21, Part 1 22:09 Read by TriciaG
28 - Ch. 21, Part 2 25:23 Read by TriciaG
29 - Ch. 22 19:30 Read by Ric Cornwall
30 - Ch. 23 17:46 Read by Ric Cornwall
31 - CONCLUSION 11:56 Read by TriciaG

Reviews

great book!


(5 stars)

This is a fanciful and epic tale that is wonderfully entertaining and brilliantly written by an author who Oscar Wilde explains essentially wrote only for himself and for art without any regard for what the public wanted. I’m glad he did! What a great book! It was read well enough to understand with the exception of one reader who’s accent and pronunciation left me missing a few words. I was able to follow he story and enjoyed it greatly! Thanks!