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William Beckford

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Paperback, Published in May 2009 by Serenity Publishers, LLC

ISBN10: 1604506881 | ISBN13: 9781604506884

Page count: 120

No words can describe the amazement of the courtiers when they beheld this rude merchant withstand the encounter unshocked. They all fell prostrate with their faces on the ground to avoid the risk of their lives, and continued in the same abject posture till the Caliph exclaimed in a furious tone, Up, cowards! seize the miscreant! see that he be committed to prison and guarded by the best of my soldiers!