Khaled
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Subjects: Arabian Peninsula -- Fiction
Description: <p>Khaled is a hard-working and faithful genie who, in his zeal, goes a little too far and kills a faithless man. This puts him under scrutiny from the powers above, who curse him to live as a human. Since genies have no souls, he will vanish from existence when he dies; but, if he can find true love, he’ll be granted a soul and thus be allowed into heaven.</p>
			<p>Written in the style of the “oriental romances” popular in those days, <i>Khaled</i> was <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-marion-crawford"><abbr>F.</abbr> Marion Crawford’s</a> favorite novel out of all of the ones he wrote in his successful career.</p>