The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (The Heritage Press)

lii, 498 pp. With a Preface by Sir Walter Scott. Illustrations by Honore Guilbeau. "whose fame depends on The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), a picaresque romance of Persian life that long influenced English ideas of Persia; its Persian translation (1905) led to the development of the modern Persian novel of social criticism."