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  • Khosrow and Shirin

    Oversat af 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 ... Læs mere

    68,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Vis and Ramin

    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 ... Læs mere

    68,36 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Mirror of My Heart

    A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

    Oversat af Dick Davis ...
    af 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 ... Læs mere

    58,48 kr.

  • The Conference of the Birds

    af Farid Attar ...
    Oversat af 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 ... Læs mere

    83,11 kr.

  • The Little Virtues

    Oversat af Dick Davis ...
    'I really love and admire The Little Virtues.' -- Zadie Smith 'Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like.' -- Rachel Cusk 'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones.' Between 1944 and 1960, Natalia Ginzburg wrote The Little Virtues, a collection of eleven vivid ... Læs mere

    64,86 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Faces of Love

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

    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    75,22 kr.

  • Places Lost and Found

    Travel Essays from the Hudson Review

    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 ... Læs mere

    271,99 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Love in Another Language

    Collected Poems and Selected Translations

    af 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' ( ... Læs mere

    118,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Shahnameh

    The Persian Book of Kings

    Oversat af 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 ... Læs mere

    95,36 kr.

  • From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table

    Wine is seen as the natural partner of many great cuisines, but few people associate it with Persian food, one of the world’s most sophisticated culinary traditions. The ties, in fact, are age-old. From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table weaves together history, poetry, a look at modern viniculture, and a wealth of recipes and wine pairings to celebrate the rightful relationship of wine and ... Læs mere

    166,74 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Ant's Gift

    A Study of the Shahnameh

    Oversat af Dick Davis ...
    Serier serie Middle East Literature In Translation
    Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran’s leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In The Ant’s Gift, Meskoob applies his insight and considerable analytical skills to the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran completed in 1010 by the poet Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi. Tracing Iran’s history from its first mythical king to the fall of the ... Læs mere

    169,99 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Layli and Majnun

    Oversat af 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 ... Læs mere

    75,22 kr.