Herbert Quick was an American author and Progressive Era figure who wrote popular fiction touching on Midwestern life, land reform, and the dynamics of American capitalism. Aladdin & Co., published in 1904, is a comic romantic novel in which American entrepreneurial energy and the mania for real estate speculation are played for satirical effect, with a nod to the Arabian Nights in its title and spirit.
An entertaining period piece about Gilded Age American optimism and the get-rich-quick spirit, the novel is now a freely available public-domain EPUB at Better Gutenberg.