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  • Khosrow and Shirin

    by Nezami Ganjavi ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    Khosrow and Shirin is a love story by Nezami Ganjavi--considered the greatest medieval Persian romance poet--based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court. Written 850 years ago, the narrative poem is presented here for the first time in a stunning modern-verse English translation by Dick Davis, the pre-eminent translator of Persian poetry.The love between an Iranian prince ... Read more

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  • Shahnameh

    The Persian Book of Kings

    by Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings, the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Conference of the Birds

    by Farid Attar ...
    Translated by Afkham Darbandi, Dick Davis ...
    Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • The Mirror of My Heart

    A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    by Dick Davis ...
    **An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis.A Penguin Classic**The Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of eighty-three Persian women poets, many of whom wrote anonymously or were punished for their outspokenness. One of the very first Persian poets was ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Vis and Ramin

    by Fakhreddin Gorgani, Dick Davis ...
    Vis & Ramin is one of the world’s great love stories. It was the first major Persian romance, written between 1050 and 1055 in rhyming couplets. This remarkable work has now been superbly translated into heroic couplets (the closest metrical equivalent of the Persian) by the poet and scholar Dick Davis.Vis & Ramin had immense influence on later Persian poetry and is very probably also the source ... Read more

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  • Shahnameh

    The Persian Book of Kings

    by Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language editionA Penguin ClassicDick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Faces of Love

    Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    by Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, Obayd-e Zakani ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literatureTogether, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era. All three lived in the famed city of Shiraz, a provincial capital of south ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • My Uncle Napoleon

    by Iraj Pezeshkzad ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    "The existence in Persian literature of a full-scale, abundantly inventive comic novel that involves a gallery of varied and highly memorable characters, not to mention scenes of hilarious farcical mayhem, may come as a surprise to a Western audience used to associating Iran with all that is in their eyes dour, dire and dreadful." (From the Preface)Set in a garden in Tehran in the early 1940s, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rostam

    Tales of Love and War from the Shahnameh

    by Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    The selected adventures of Persia's Hercules, from Iran's great national epicNo understanding of world mythology is complete without acquaintance with Rostam, Iran's most celebrated mythological hero. According to the Shahnameh (the tenth-century Book of Kings), this titan, magnificent in strength and courage, bestrode Persia for 500 years. While he often served fickle kings - undergoing many ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Layli and Majnun

    by Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    **The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song "Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East," in a masterly new translationA Penguin Classic**The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Places Lost and Found

    Travel Essays from the Hudson Review

    by Dick Davis, Joseph Bennett, Guy Davenport, Alice Bloom, C. B. Cox, Charles W. Millard, Paul Moore Jr., Robert S. Clark, John P. Sisk, C. S. Giscombe, Lynda McDonnell, Madison Smartt Bell, Diana Webster, Jacqueline W. Brown, Hilary Spurling, Frederick Brown, Brooke Allen, Herbert Gold, Christian N. Desrosiers, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Martina Broner, Laurie Olin, David Mason, Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky, A. E. Stallings ...
    The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual curiosity and ... Read more

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  • Love in Another Language

    Collected Poems and Selected Translations

    by Dick Davis ...
    In Love in Another Language Dick Davis is shown to be the outstanding formal poet of his generation, a master of rhyme and metre, a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tradition. His Collected Poems draws on eight previous publications and includes a section of new work. Davis has also established himself as 'the leading translator of Persian literature in our time' ... Read more

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