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100 0 $aFirdawsī.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79094717
240 10 $aShāhnāmah.$kSelections.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003067134
245 10 $aShahnameh :$bthe Persian book of kings /$cAbolqasem Ferdowsi ; translated by Dick Davis ; with a foreword by Azar Nafisi.
246 30 $aPersian book of kings
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2006.
300 $axxxvii, 886 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
500 $a"Originally published in three volumes entitled The lion and the throne, Fathers and sons, and Sunset of empire by Mage Publishers, Washington, DC"--T.p. verso.
520 1 $a"Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, the national epic of Persia. Composed by the poet Ferdowsi a thousand years ago, this prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. As a window on the world, Shahnameh belongs in the company of such literary masterpieces as Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's dramas, and the epics of Homer - classics whose reach and range bring whole cultures into view. In its pages are unforgettable moments of national triumph and failure, human courage and cruelty, blissful love and bitter grief." "In tracing the roots of Iran, Shahnameh initially draws on the depths of legend and then carries its story into historical times, when ancient Persia was swept into an expanding Islamic empire. Now Dick Davis, the preeminent translator of Persian poetry, has newly translated this epic, turning the finest stories of Ferdowsi's original poem into an elegant combination of prose and verse. For the first time in English, in its most complete form, readers can experience Shahnameh in the same way that Iranian storytellers have lovingly conveyed it in Persian for the past thousand years. Illustrated throughout with beautiful Persian lithographs, Viking's new edition of the Shahnameh features a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of the bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran."--BOOK JACKET.
700 1 $aDavis, Dick,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80136264
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