Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee MagicHerbert Quick
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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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
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.