The Porter of Bagdad, and Other Fantasies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Macmechan, Archibald McKellar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133060766X ISBN 13: 9781330607664

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Porter of Bagdad, and Other Fantasies

Its body bent, its hands clasped behind, and its long thin legs, brown and shrivelled like a crane's, had grown together in one. As soon as the Porter touched the Djinn's single eye, the whole room was one ?ood of mellow light, like the Caliph's spice-garden when the thou sand silver lamps are lighted at once. Then you could see how large the room was and how near it lay to the good Haroun's palace. The roof was so high and walls so wide that one would think it was a Sultan's audience chamber. For there was room for busy slaves setting out a banquet in a wide portico that looked upon a garden of palms. They ever poured red wine from crystal goblets so thin, it was a marvel their delicate sides held in the precious liquor. There were trains and troops of dancing-girls, brown-skinned and white, with little tinkling bells at ankle and wrist, and seated choirs of women-singers, with sweet voices, that sang continually. Foreign princesses, in beauty like the full blown lotus ?ower, knelt before the Porter's divan of silk tissue. But the great room seemed to have no walls, for the Porter could see, from the divan he lay on, far away where the great black and yellow cats played in their lair beneath the forest leaves, and far ther, where the ocean gleamed blue beyond.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 133060766X
• ISBN 13: 9781330607664
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168