Aladdin O'Brien
Gouverneur Morris
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Description
Gouverneur Morris opens Aladdin O'Brien with Poe's Annabel Lee and a forbidden river. Aladdin entices Margaret from Sunday-school to a skiff he barely knows how to row. He whistles through his front teeth and blows grapevine smoke through his nose. To be with him, the narrator says, was a delicious lesson in corruption.
The river nearly drowns them both, and Margaret's scarf becomes the book's token. Aladdin grows into a charming, reckless young man of politics and newspapers. Washington draws the grown pair into its intrigues, where his luck and nerve keep rescuing him. Morris writes a picaresque of American charm: a boy with a lamp-like gift for escaping scrapes. Margaret's steady love measures the man against the child. The novel's lightness is deliberate, a fairy tale of the republic's capital.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gouverneur Morris |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 267 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |