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'''''The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment''''' is a [[fantasy novel]] by English writer [[George Meredith]]. It was first published in hardcover by [[Chapman and Hall]] in 1856, and there have been numerous editions since. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its reissuing by [[Ballantine Books]] as the seventeenth volume of the [[Ballantine Adult Fantasy series]] in July 1970. The Ballantine edition includes an introduction by [[Lin Carter]].
The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the ''[[The Book of One Thousand and One Nights|Arabian Nights]]''. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides.
==Plot summary==
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