Författare: Sir Richard Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a preeminent British explorer of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. His famed disguised pilgrimage to Mecca in 1853 made his name known. Burton helped demystif …

Drawing from the famous translation of Sir Richard Burton, ’The Arabian Nights’ is a selection of the voluminous ’One Thousand and One Nights’, a collection of ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, I …

The following text has been drawn from Sir Richard Burton’s exhaustive translation of ’The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night’, more commonly known as ’The Arabian Nights’. The story of Aladdin, …

The following text has been drawn from Sir Richard Burton’s exhaustive translation of ’The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night’, more commonly known as ’The Arabian Nights’. The story of ’Ali Bab …

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a preeminent British explorer of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. His famed disguised pilgrimage to Mecca in 1853 made his name known. Burton helped demystif …

Written by Vatsyayana sometime between the 1st and 6th centuries A.D., ’Kama Sutra’ is literally translated as ’Aphorisms on Love.’ Intended as a manual for not only love and intimacy but also a trea …

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.’"For, " said he, "there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth."’A coll …

The Perfumed Garden is a sex manual written in erotic prose. It gives advice on bodily appearance, sexual technique, and also on the symptoms and remedies for sexual diseases. Al-Nafzawi also describ …

The Perfumed Garden is a sex manual written in erotic prose. It gives advice on bodily appearance, sexual technique, and also on the symptoms and remedies for sexual diseases. Al-Nafzawi also describ …

Sir Richard Burton’s classic loose reworking of the Sanskrit fable cycle Twenty five tales of Baital follows the tale of King Vikram who promises a powerful sorcerer that he will capture a vampire sp …

An ancient Indian text on human sexual behavior, widely considered to be the standard work on love in the Sanskrit literature. The text was written by Vatsyayana. The author is believed to have lived …

The following text has been drawn from Sir Richard Burton’s exhaustive translation of ’The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night’, more commonly known as ’The Arabian Nights’. The story of ’The Sev …

’Kama’, em sânscrito, significa desejo, amor, prazer sexual; ’sutra’, ensinamentos transmitidos em forma de regras, preceitos ou aforismos. Porém, o Kama Sutra não é apenas sobre posições amorosas e …