Khosrow and Shirin
$50.12
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2025
Summary
Khosrow and Shirin: A Persian Love Epic
A tragic epic love story predating Romeo and Juliet, by one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, in a modern-verse English translation by Dick Davis. A Penguin Classic.
Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about Khosrow and Shirin stands alongside the most intensely romantic classic stories, from Tristan and Isolde to Layla and Majnun to Romeo and J…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143138631 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143138634 |
| Author: | Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 297g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 19mm |
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Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Khosrow and Shirin. The medieval Persian epic ‘Khosrow and Shirin’ is a rich and gloriously excessive love story – Michael Dirda * The Washington Post *
About The Author
Nezami Ganjavi
Dick Davis is a translator, a poet, and a scholar of Persian literature who has published more than 20 books. He retired in 2012 as a professor of Persian at Ohio State University and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His translations from Persian include Shahnameh, The Mirror of My Heart, Hafez’s Faces of Love, Rostam, Vis and Ramin, and Layli and Majnun.
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