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Terminal essay to "The thousand and one nights"

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Terminal essay to "The thousand and one nights"

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Description: "This exhaustive treatise is a supplement to ... the luminous essay by the late John Addington Symonds entitled A problem in Greek ethics." Burton theorizes in this essay that homosexuality is caused by climate, particularly a region known as "The Sotadic zone," and originally appeared as part of the first edition of his translation of the Arabian Nights.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1901.
Call number: 635873
Creator: Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwards Metcalf, 1992.
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