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The Perfumed Garden (unabridged)

translated by Richard Burton

read by Jonathan Keeble

The Perfumed Garden (unabridged)

The Perfumed Garden (unabridged)

translated by Richard Burton

read by Jonathan Keeble

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The 15th-century Arabian text The Perfumed Garden stands with India’s The Karma 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 advice for how to achieve greater satisfaction for both partners, as well as sexual health. In addition, it contains some enlivening stories of sexual encounters and sexual needs fulfilled. Jonathan Keeble reads Richard Burton’s famous 1886 translation with aplomb.

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Sheikh Nefzaoui: The Perfumed Garden
Work length6:33:50
The Perfumed Garden
Track length8:27
Introduction
Track length9:22
Chapter 1: Concerning Praise-worthy Men
Track length8:41
Next day the prophetess mounted horse
Track length9:10
Bahloul then began thus…
Track length6:24
Bahloul recited as follows…
Track length7:36
The sultan's daughter continued her ride…
Track length7:12
Chapter 2: Concerning Women who Deserve to be Praised
Track length3:54
The Story of the Negro Dorerame
Track length9:20
The king then began to look for a place…
Track length8:22
The king then went to the inner door…
Track length7:31
However, the negro wanted to draw the woman…
Track length6:43
The king then asked for the reason…
Track length7:56
Chapter 3: About Men who are to be Held in Contempt
Track length3:25
Chapter 4: About Women who are to be Held in Contempt
Track length4:45
Chapter 5: Relating to the Act of Generation
Track length8:00
Chapter 6: Concerning Everything that is Favourable…
Track length3:54
Sundry Positions for the Coitus
Track length7:09
First Manner: El asemeud (the stopperage)
Track length9:41
Seventeenth Manner: Dok el outed (driving the peg home)
Track length7:41
I shall now treat of coition…
Track length8:29
As regards the copulation of a very small man…
Track length3:55
If a little woman is lying on her back…
Track length6:43
It is well for the lover of coition…
Track length7:44
I have composed on this subject the following lines…
Track length8:15
Chapter 7: Of Matters which are Injurious…
Track length7:22
As injurious may be considered coition in the bath…
Track length8:19
Chapter 8: The Sundry Names Given to the Sexual Parts of Man
Track length6:53
If one dreams that he gets out of a window…
Track length9:13
The name of el air is derived…
Track length6:13
El dekhal (the housebreaker)
Track length7:19
Chapter 9: Sundry Names Given to the Sexual Organs of Women
Track length5:17
The man who dreams of cohabiting with women…
Track length4:45
He who dreams of seeing himself mounted upon…
Track length6:54
Abou Belaoum (the glutton)
Track length5:42
El sabeur (the resigned)
Track length8:34
The History of Djoaidi and Fadehat et Djemal
Track length9:35
She began to laugh…
Track length9:44
Chapter 10: Concerning the Organs of Generation of Animals
Track length4:22
Chapter 11: On the Deceits and Treacheries of Women
Track length8:23
The Story of the Lover Against his Will
Track length8:27
Story of the Woman with Two Husbands
Track length8:34
The Story of the Man who was an Expert in Strata
Track length8:43
When asked for explanations…
Track length7:40
Chapter 13: Concerning the Causes of Enjoyment…
Track length5:33
Chapter 14: Description of the Uterus of Sterile Women…
Track length2:51
Chapter 15: Concerning the Causes of Impotence in Men
Track length2:16
Chapter 16: Undoing of Aiguillettes (Impotence for a Time)
Track length2:37
Chapter 17: Prescriptions for Increasing the Dimensions…
Track length4:11
Chapter 18: Of Things that Take Away the Bad Smell…
Track length2:34
Chapter 19: Instructions with Regard to Pregnancy…
Track length2:14
Chapter 20: Forming the Conclusion of this Work…
Track length3:58
The History of Zohra
Track length6:17
Abou el Heidja left the negro in charge of the horses…
Track length9:05
Now among the virgins that were present…
Track length9:50
Appendix to the Autograph Edition: To the Reader
Track length6:56
Everyone knows, in fact, the grave inconveniences…
Track length6:07
However it may be, as regards the origin of the text…
Track length7:03
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