Sir Richard Francis Burton: 51 books

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...

Contents of the Eleventh Volume. 1. The Sleeper and the Waker Story of the Larrikin and the Cook 2. The Caliph Omar Bin Abd Al-Aziz and the Poets 3. Al-Hajjaj and the Three Young Men 4. Harun Al-Rashid and the Woman of the Barmecides 5. The Ten Wazirs; or the History of King Azadbakht and...

The principle of inclusion in this book is the traditional one which assumes that criticism is only safe when it deals with authors who are dead. In proportion as we approach the living or, worse, speak of those still on earth, the proper perspective is lost and the dangers of contemporary judgment...

London: 1876 "Quisquis amat Congi fines peragrare nigrantes, Africæ et Æthiopum cernere regna, domus

The notes which form the ground-work of these volumes have long been kept in the obscurity of manuscript: my studies of South America, of Syria and Palestine, of Iceland, and of Istria, left me scant time for the labour of preparation. Leisure and opportunity have now offered themselves, and I avail...

The Translator has ventured to entitle a “Lay of the Higher Law” the following composition, which aims at being in advance of its time; and he has not feared the danger of collision with such unpleasant forms as the “Higher Culture.” The principles which justify the name are as follows:—...

Contents of the Sixth Volume 133. Sindbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman a. The First Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman b. The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman c. The Third Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman d. The Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman e. The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman f....

We are about to describe one of the most important scenes in the Mohammedan's life. A pilgrimage to Mecca, followed by a visitation to Medina, are, under certain limitations, obligatory upon all true believers, and many who have led evil lives date their reformation from the first sight of the holy...

The history of the Jew as well as his physiological aspect are subjects which still remain to be considered and carefully to be worked out from an Aryan point of view. We have of late years seen books in plenty upon points of detail: let us particularize The Physical History of the Jewish Race, by...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...