Richard Francis Burton: 60 books
by Sheikh Muslih-uddin Sa’di Shirazi, Sir Richard Francis Burton
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Table of Contents
Introductory The Manners of Kings The Morals of Dervishes On the Excellence of Contentment On the Advantages of Silence On Love and Youth On Weakness and Old Age On the Effects of Education On Rules for Conduct in Life Conclusion of the Book
Arabian Nights (Volume 15)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Contents of the Fifteenth Volume.
1. The History of the King's Son of Sind and the Lady Fatimah 2. History of the Lovers of Syria 3. History of Al-Hajjaj Bin Yusuf and the Young Sayyid 4. Night Adventure of Harun Al-Rashid and the Youth Manjab a. Story of the Darwaysh and the Barber's Boy...
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
I went to Iceland feeling by instinct that many travellers had prodigiously exaggerated their descriptions, possibly because they had seldom left home. “The most difficult and expensive country in the world” would certainly prove cheap and easy after the Andes and the Haurán. What could be made...
To the Gold Coast for Gold (Complete)
A Personal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
The following extract from 'Wanderings in West Africa,' a book which I wrote in 1862 and published (anonymously) in 1863, will best explain the reasons which lately sent me to Western Africa:--
In several countries, for instance, Dinkira, Tueful, Wásá (Wassaw), and especially...
Arabian Nights (Volume 14)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Contents of the Fourteenth Volume.
1. Story of the Sultan of Al-Yaman and His Three Sons 2. Story of the Three Sharpers a. The Sultan Who Fared Forth in the Habit of a Darwaysh b. History of Mohammed, Sultan of Cairo c. Story of the First Lunatic d. Story of the Second Lunatic e. Story of...
Arabian Nights (Volume 8)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Contents of the Eighth Volume
King Mohammed Bin Sabaik and the Merchant Hasan (continued) a. Story of Prince Sayf Al-Muluk and the Princess Badi'a Al-Jamal (continued) 155. Hassan of Bassorah 156. Khalifah The Fisherman Of Baghdad The same from the Breslau Edition 157. Masrur and Zayn Al-Mawasif 158. Ali Nur Al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-Girl
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
A few pages by way of "Forespeache."
The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by the second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to the liberality and the foresight of his Highness Ismail I., Khediv of Egypt, forms the subject of these volumes. During...
Arabian Nights (Volume 9)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Contents of the Ninth Volume
Ali Nur Al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-Girl (continued) 159. The Man of Upper Egypt and His Frankish Wife 160. The Ruined Man of Baghdad and his Slave-Girl 161. King Jali'ad of Hind and His Wazir Shimas: Followed by the History of King Wird Khan, son of King Jali'ad...
Arabian Nights (Volume 12)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Contents of the Twelfth Volume.
13. Al-Malik Al-Zahir Rukn Al-Din Bibars Al-Bundukdari and the Sixteen Captains of Police a. First Constable's History b. Second Constable's History c. Third Constable's History d. Fourth Constable's History e. Fifth Constable's History f. Sixth Constable's...
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
Alf Laylah wa Laylah
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Table of Contents
The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (Alf Laylah Wa Laylah)
Story of King Shahryar and His Brother The Tale of the Bull and the Ass The Fisherman and the Jinni The Tale of the Ensorceled Prince The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad The First Kalandar’s Tale...
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Before proceeding to develop my New Sword Exercise for Infantry, I would offer a few remarks upon the changes proposed in these pages. Whilst the last half century has witnessed an immense improvement in the projectile weapons of the civilized world, the theory and practice of the sabre or cutting...
Arabian Nights (Volume 2)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Contents of the Second Volume
7. Nur Al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis Al-Jalis
8. Tale of Ghanim Bin Ayyub, The Distraught, The Thrall O' Love
a. Tale of the First Eunuch, Bukhayt
b. Tale of the Second Eunuch, Kafur
9. Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman and His...
by Richard Francis Burton
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Subtitled “A Study of Principles and Personality,” this 1909 critical study of fiction views its subjects in light of romantic and realistic movements. The author offers critical essays on Richardson, Fielding, Scott, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Stevenson, and others—as well as chapters on the literary contributions of France and America.
Arabian Nights (Volume 16)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Contents of the Sixteenth Volume.
1. The Say of Haykar the Sage 2. The History of Al-Bundukani or, The Caliph Harun Al-Rashid and the Daughter of King Kisra 3. The Linguist-Dame, the Duenna and the King's Son 4. The Tale of the Warlock and the Young Cook of Baghdad 5. The Pleasant History...