Edited by his Wife Isabel Burton
“Les fables, loin de grandir les hommes, la Nature et Dieu,
rapetssent tout.”
Lamartine (Milton)
“One who had eyes saw it; the blind will not understand it.
A poet, who is a boy, he has perceived it; he who understands it
will be
his sire’s sire.”—Rig-Veda (I.164.16).
CONTENTS
[ PREFACE TO THE FIRST (1870) EDITION. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S FIRST STORY — In which a man deceives a woman. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S SECOND STORY — Of the Relative Villany of Men and Women. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S THIRD STORY — Of a High-minded Family. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S FOURTH STORY — Of A Woman Who Told The Truth. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S FIFTH STORY — Of the Thief Who Laughed and Wept. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S SIXTH STORY — In Which Three Men Dispute about a Woman. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S SEVENTH STORY — Showing the Exceeding Folly of Many Wise Fools. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S EIGHTH STORY — Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S NINTH STORY — Showing That a Man’s Wife Belongs Not to His Body but to His Head. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S TENTH STORY [168] — Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S ELEVENTH STORY — Which Puzzles Raja Vikram. ]