The Perfumed Garden: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nefzaoui: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 15 original MP3 tracks, 5:38:13 running time and a link to listen.
The Perfumed Garden, credited to Sheikh Nefzaoui, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Perfumed Garden, by Sheikh Nefzaoui. Read by Alia Makki. A fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It gives lists of names for the penis and vagina, has a section on the interpretation of dreams, and briefly describes sex among animals. Interspersed with these there are a number of stories which are intended to give context and amusement. (Summary by Wikipedia)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Perfumed Garden
- Author credits: Sheikh Nefzaoui
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 15
- Listed recording duration: 5:38:13
Catalogue topics
- advice
- erotica
- instruction
- romance
Track guide
- 00 - Translator's Note and Introduction — 15:59
- 01 - Chapter One — 31:40
- 02 - Chapter Two — 35:01
- 03 - Chapter Three, Four and Five — 14:23
- 04 - Chapter Six — 50:09
- 05 - Chapter Seven — 12:52
- 06 - Chapter Eight — 24:40
- 07 - Chapter Nine — 42:51
- 08 - Chapter Ten — 3:56
- 09 - Chapter Eleven — 31:46
- 10 - Chapter Twelve and Thirteen — 13:22
- 11 - Chapter Fourteen thru Seventeen — 11:23
- 12 - Chapter Eighteen and Nineteen — 4:35
- 13 - Chapter Twenty — 26:05
- 14 - Appendix — 19:38
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