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Collins Classics - Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'So he rose and lighted one lamp after another, till he had lighted the whole eighty and the palace seemed to dance with brilliancy.' Beginning with the legend of King Shahryr, whose anger at his queen's infidelity le ...Show more
Perfumed Garden by Nefzaoui Sheikh Sir Richard Burton
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The fifteenth-century Arabian text The Perfumed Garden stands with India's The Kama Sutra as one of the greatest erotic texts in classic literature. It is primarily a manual for sexual activity of all kinds, dealing in some considerable detail with physical attributes, foreplay, coital positions, and ad ...Show more
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Richard Burton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
Discover mystery and wonder in Tales from the Arabian Nights. The next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, Tales from the Arabian Nights is comprised of twenty-one of the most popular tales that were told by Scheherazade to her husband, King Shahryar, in the course of 1,001 nights in o ...Show more
The Arabian Nights by Richard F. Burton (Translator); A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad alway ...Show more
The Richard Burton Diaries by Richard Burton & Chris Williams (ed.)
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
In his personal diaries Richard Burton is a man quite different from the one we familiarly "know" as acclaimed actor, international film star, and jet-set celebrity. From his private, handwritten pages there emerges a different person - a family man, a father, a husband, a man often troubled and always ...Show more
The Thousand and One Nights by Richard Francis Burton
$160.00 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
In the late 1920s, the art publisher H. Piazza produced a twelve-volume version of The 1001 Nights that was one of the most beautiful ever made. It included splendid illustrations by Mohammed Racim and wonderful miniatures by painter Leon Carre. Today, Assouline is publishing an abridged version of this ...Show more
To the Holy Shrines (Great Journeys) by Richard Burton
$12.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Disguised as a Persian dervish, Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) set out to become the first Christian to penetrate the Muslim shrines of Medina and Mecca - a reckless stunt that would have resulted in his being executed if discovered. Endlessly observant, amused, boastful and engaging, Burton here descri ...Show more
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