Rare and wonderful
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This book was a pleasant surprise for me having come from Sir Richard Burton's translation, which is full of spurious and lascivious embellishments and has a French language origin. Although "The Perfumed Garden" was no literary masterpiece and suffered much injustice in the hands of European publishers over the centuries, Jim Colville is making reparations by presenting us with a witty and mischievous text which one feels must be close to the spirit of the original. This edition of al-Nafzawi's "The Perfumed Garden", which is apparently the only translation available from the original Arabic, will certainly appeal to those with an interest in medieval literature and the history of sexuality.
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