Vikram and the Vampire
- Subtitle
- Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance
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1. VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE2. PREFACE3. PREFACE TO THE FIRST (1870) EDITION.4. INTRODUCTION5. THE VAMPIRE’S FIRST STORY — In which a man deceives a woman.6. THE VAMPIRE’S SECOND STORY — Of the Relative Villany of Men and Women.7. THE VAMPIRE’S THIRD STORY — Of a High-minded Family.8. THE VAMPIRE’S FOURTH STORY — Of A Woman Who Told The Truth.9. THE VAMPIRE’S FIFTH STORY — Of the Thief Who Laughed and Wept.10. THE VAMPIRE’S SIXTH STORY — In Which Three Men Dispute about a Woman.11. THE VAMPIRE’S SEVENTH STORY — Showing the Exceeding Folly of Many Wise Fools.12. THE VAMPIRE’S EIGHTH STORY — Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills.13. THE VAMPIRE’S NINTH STORY — Showing That a Man’s Wife Belongs Not to His Body but to His Head.14. THE VAMPIRE’S TENTH STORY [168] — Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens.15. THE VAMPIRE’S ELEVENTH STORY — Which Puzzles Raja Vikram.16. FOOTNOTES