The Shaving of Shagpat


Lu par LibriVox Volunteers

(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)

Chapitres

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

Critiques

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!