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Saïd the Fisherman

by Marmaduke Pickthall

A Syrian Arab’s fortunes rise and fall as he wanders away from his home by the sea.

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First published
1933
Length
112,919 words
Reading time
About 7 hr 51 min
Language
English (UK)

About the book

Saïd is a fisherman who has carefully saved up a small fortune to buy a coffeehouse. He imagines this to be the start of his upward climb in social status, until his savings mysteriously disappear. Convinced that this is the work of a jinni, he packs up his belongings and leaves with his wife, headed for a new start somewhere else.

Along the way, Saïd gets ahead smoothly by cunning and thievery, yet his fortunes are just as easily reversed by a turn of luck or the trickery of others.

After some rises and falls in his fortunes, Saïd is finally established as a merchant—but will his relentless greed cause his downfall?

the Read4Max reading text contains approximately 112,919 words arranged in 51 navigable sections.

About the author

Marmaduke Pickthall

Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936) is described by Wikidata as British Islamic scholar, an English translator of the Qur'an into English (1875–1936), with citizenship or national association recorded as United Kingdom and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Recorded occupations include translator, journalist, novelist, Islamicist, writer, and linguist. Languages recorded for Marmaduke Pickthall include English, Arabic, Urdu, and Turkish. Open Library identifies Folk-lore of the Holy Land as a leading work in its author record. Open Library catalogs 126 works under this author record. The Read4Max catalog currently includes Saïd the Fisherman under Marmaduke Pickthall's authorship.

1875–1936

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Themes and ideas

  • Middle East
  • Picaresque fiction

Table of contents

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Show all 51 sections
  1. Part I
  2. I
  3. II
  4. III
  5. IV
  6. V
  7. VI
  8. VII
  9. VIII
  10. IX
  11. X
  12. XI
  13. XII
  14. XIII
  15. XIV
  16. XV
  17. XVI
  18. XVII
  19. XVIII
  20. XIX
  21. XX
  22. XXI
  23. XXII
  24. XXIII
  25. XXIV
  26. XXV
  27. XXVI
  28. XXVII
  29. XXVIII
  30. Part II
  31. I
  32. II
  33. III
  34. IV
  35. V
  36. VI
  37. VII
  38. VIII
  39. IX
  40. X
  41. XI
  42. XII
  43. XIII
  44. XIV
  45. XV
  46. XVI
  47. XVII
  48. Time Table to Part I
  49. Time Table to Part II
  50. Glossary of Arab Expressions and Names of Places
  51. Endnotes
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