Vikram and the Vampire
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
- Title
- Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance
- Credits
- Produced by Sara Vazirian and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
- Subject
- Hindus -- Folklore
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 2400
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2400
- Release Date
- November 1, 2000
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE
- 2.By Sir Richard F. Burton — Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance — Edited by his Wife Isabel Burton
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.PREFACE TO THE FIRST (1870) EDITION.
- 5.INTRODUCTION — VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE
- 6.THE VAMPIRE’S FIRST STORY — In which a man deceives a woman.
- 7.THE VAMPIRE’S SECOND STORY — Of the Relative Villany of Men and Women.
- 8.THE VAMPIRE’S THIRD STORY — Of a High-minded Family.
- 9.THE VAMPIRE’S FOURTH STORY — Of A Woman Who Told The Truth.
- 10.THE VAMPIRE’S FIFTH STORY — Of the Thief Who Laughed and Wept.
- 11.THE VAMPIRE’S SIXTH STORY — In Which Three Men Dispute about a Woman.
- 12.THE VAMPIRE’S SEVENTH STORY — Showing the Exceeding Folly of Many Wise Fools.
- 13.THE VAMPIRE’S EIGHTH STORY — Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills.
- 14.THE VAMPIRE’S NINTH STORY — Showing That a Man’s Wife Belongs Not to His Body but to His Head.
- 15.THE VAMPIRE’S TENTH STORY [168] — Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens.
- 16.THE VAMPIRE’S ELEVENTH STORY — Which Puzzles Raja Vikram.
- 17.FOOTNOTES
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