The Carpet From Bagdad - Macgrath, Harold

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Résumé :
A bold voyage of daring, danger, and discovery lies at the heart of The Carpet From Bagdad, where a haunted cityscape and adventurous spirits collide in a world of peril and promise. From the steam of early twentieth-century travel to the tremor of colonial intrigue, Harold MacGrath crafts a historical adventure fiction that sweeps readers into a vivid Bagdad backdrop and beyond. This restored edition revisits a tale of treasure and superstition, where explorers and their rivals thread a fragile line between courage and consequence. The novel blends a rousing plot with thoughtful glimpses of exotic cultures, offering both pulse-quickening action and reflective moments on belief, fate, and loyalty. It speaks to lovers of classic fiction while inviting casual readers to step into a richly imagined era-one that feels at once distant and urgently familiar. Alpha Editions is honoured to bring this out-of-print gem back for today's and future generations. More than a reprint, it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, carefully revived for new readers and seasoned enthusiasts alike. The Carpet From Bagdad stands as a touchstone for early twentieth century fiction, a treasure trove for fans of middle eastern backdrop settings and Edwardian adventure authors, and a vivid invitation to savour the atmosphere, danger, and wonder of a world where every creak of a rug might hide a secret....

Biographie:
American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter Harold MacGrath (September 4, 1871 - October 30, 1922) was a bestselling and prolific author. He occasionally finished more than one mass-market novel per year, with themes including romance, spies, mystery, and adventure. He was the first nationally renowned author hired to produce original screenplays for the fledgling motion picture industry. Additionally, he had three short stories and 18 novels turned into movies, sometimes more than once. Additionally, three of these books were turned into plays that were presented on New York City's Broadway. Although MacGrath spent a lot of time traveling, his home base was always Syracuse, New York, where he was born and reared. He was the son of Thomas H. and Lillian Jane McGrath, and he was born Harold McGrath in Syracuse, New York. Before publishing his first book, a romance titled Arms and Woman, in the late 1890s, he was a teenage reporter and columnist for the Syracuse Herald newspaper. The Puppet Crown, his subsequent novel, reportedly peaked at No. 7 on the New York Times bestseller list for the entire year of 1901. More than one mass-market novel about love, adventure, mystery, spies, and the like was still produced annually by MacGrath....