Vikram And The Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance

Vikram and the Vampire......Page 2 PREFACE......Page 3 PREFACE TO THE FIRST (1870) EDITION.......Page 4 INTRODUCTION......Page 11 THE VAMPIRE'S FIRST STORY. In which a man deceives a woman.......Page 42 THE VAMPIRE'S SECOND STORY. Of the Relative Villany of Men and Women.......Page 70 THE VAMPIRE'S THIRD STORY. Of a High-minded Family.......Page 98 THE VAMPIRE'S FOURTH STORY. Of A Woman Who Told The Truth.......Page 109 THE VAMPIRE'S FIFTH STORY. Of the Thief Who Laughed and Wept.......Page 116 THE VAMPIRE'S SIXTH STORY. In Which Three Men Dispute about a Woman.......Page 129 THE VAMPIRE'S SEVENTH STORY. Showing the Exceeding Folly of Many Wise Fools.......Page 141 THE VAMPIRE'S EIGHTH STORY. Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills.......Page 158 THE VAMPIRE'S NINTH STORY. Showing That a Man's Wife Belongs Not to His Body but to His Head.......Page 177 THE VAMPIRE'S TENTH STORY. Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens.......Page 188 THE VAMPIRE'S ELEVENTH STORY. Which Puzzles Raja Vikram.......Page 190 CONCLUSION.......Page 201