The Shaving of Shagpat

The Shaving of Shagpat

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author = George Meredith
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Fantasy novel
publisher = Chapman and Hall
release_date = 1856
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = viii, 384 p.
isbn = NA
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"The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment" is a fantasy novel by George Meredith. It was first published in hardcover by Chapman and Hall in 1856, and there have been numerous editions since. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its reissuing by Ballantine Books as the seventeenth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July, 1970. The Ballantine edition includes an introduction by Lin Carter.

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.

Plot summary

Shibli Bagarag, a Persian barber, and Noorna, an enchantress, are given the quest of shaving the tyrant Shagpat, who by the power of his magical hair holds his city in thrall. Along the way Shibli acquires a magic sword and meets a series of exotic creatures, including a talking hawk and several genies.

The second paragraph of the book provides a capsule summary of the story: "Now the story of Shibli Bagarag, and of the ball he followed, and of the subterranean kingdom he came to, and of the enchanted palace he entered, and of the sleeping king he shaved, and of the two princesses he released, and of the Afrite held in subjection by the arts of one and bottled by her, is it not known as 'twere written on the finger-nails of men and traced in their corner robes?"

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