Flood Tide (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Flood Tide

One character in literature has always commanded my sympathy. I feel that he has been gravely misjudged, criticized Without cause, mocked without reason. I refer to Alnaschar, Fifth Brother of the Barber of Bagdad.

I first heard of Alnaschar from old Henry Rideout. I was four years old at the time, convalescent from typhoid. Henry came every day to amuse me while my father was away at the store. He spun me yarns of sea adventure, tales of China voyages, drawling sagas of 'runs ashore in distant ports. Finally he exhausted his store of personal experience and fell back on his reading, giving me queer and distorted versions of many things, from Shakespeare to yellow backed novels. And at last he came to the Arabian Nights and the Barber's tale of his brother.

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