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Libros narrados por Dick Davis

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  • Shahnameh

    The Persian Book of Kings

    de Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $186 MXN

  • Khosrow and Shirin

    de Nezami Ganjavi ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $149 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Vis and Ramin

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $150 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Mirror of My Heart

    A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

    Traducido por Dick Davis ...
    de 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 ... Leer más

    $127 MXN

  • Faces of Love

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

    Traducido por Dick Davis ...
    de 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 ... Leer más

    $158 MXN

  • Shahnameh

    The Persian Book of Kings

    de Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $320 MXN

  • My Uncle Napoleon

    de Iraj Pezeshkzad ...
    Traducido por 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, ... Leer más

    $172 MXN

  • The Conference of the Birds

    de Farid Attar ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $219 MXN

  • The Little Virtues

    de Natalia Ginzburg ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $161 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Places Lost and Found

    Travel Essays from the Hudson Review

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $495 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Rostam

    Tales of Love and War from the Shahnameh

    de Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $202 MXN

  • Love in Another Language

    Collected Poems and Selected Translations

    de 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' ( ... Leer más

    $286 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus