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Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic

Herbert Quick

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 228 pages

Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic is a novel by Herbert Quick. It follows a group of Americans whose schemes carry them from a coral island to Wall Street, blending adventure with sudden wealth and its burdens. Worth listening to for its lively portrait of American enterprise and fortune.

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ALADDIN & CO.
A ROMANCE OF YANKEE MAGIC
BY
HERBERT QUICK
Author of
“Virginia of the Air Lanes,” “Double Trouble,”
etc.
GROSSET & DUNLAP
Publishers   :  :   New York
Copyright 1904
Henry Holt and Company
Copyright 1907
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Contents.

CHAPTER I.
Which is of Introductory Character.
CHAPTER II.
Still Introductory.
CHAPTER III.
Reminiscentially Autobiographical.
CHAPTER IV.
Jim Discovers His Coral Island.
CHAPTER V.
We Reach the Atoll.
CHAPTER VI.
I Am Inducted Into the Cave, and Enlist.
CHAPTER VII.
We Make our Landing.
CHAPTER VIII.
A Welcome to Wall Street and Us.
CHAPTER IX.

I Go Aboard and We Unfurl the Jolly
Roger.
CHAPTER X.
We Dedicate Lynhurst Park.
CHAPTER XI.
The Empress and Sir John Meet Again.
CHAPTER XII.
In Which the Burdens of Wealth Begin to
Fall Upon Us.
CHAPTER XIII.
A Sitting Or Two in the Game with the
World and Destiny.
CHAPTER XIV.
In Which We Learn Something of Railroads,
and Attend Some Remarkable Christenings.
CHAPTER XV.
Some Affairs of the Heart Considered in
Their Relation to Dollars Cents.
CHAPTER XVI.
Some Things Which Happened in our Halcyon
Days.

CHAPTER XVII.
Relating to the Disposition of the
Captives.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Going Away of Laura and Clifford, and
the Departure of Mr. Trescott.
CHAPTER XIX.
In Which Events Resume Their Usual Course
—At a Somewhat Accelerated Pace.
CHAPTER XX.
I Twice Explain the Condition of the
Trescott Estate.
CHAPTER XXI.
Of Conflicts, Within and Without.
CHAPTER XXII.
In Which I Win My Great Victory.
CHAPTER XXIII.
The “Dutchman’s Mill” and What it Ground.
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Beginning of the End.

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