Resultaten voor "Dick Davis"

Layli and Majnun

Nezami Ganjavi

• Paperback | Engels
• 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 mast... Lees meer

The Ant's Gift

Shahrokh Meskoob

• Hardcover | Engels | 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 ... Lees meer

Shahnameh

Abolqasem Ferdowsi

• Paperback | Engels
• 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 e... Lees meer

The Dick Davis Dividend

Dick Davis

• Hardcover | Engels
• A pioneer in the financial media, Dick Davis has interacted with the investing public for over forty years. With his new book, he continues this trend... Lees meer

The Mirror of My Heart

Dick Davis

• Hardcover | Engels
• One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe'eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in v... Lees meer

When They Broke Down The Door

Fatemeh Shams

• Paperback | Engels
• The power of poetry to map the human heart has been a hallmark of Persian culture for at least a thousand years, and Fatemeh Shams wields it unforgett... Lees meer

Love in Another Language

Dick Davis

• Paperback | Engels
• An abundant, moving collection by the leading formal poet and Persian translator of our time. Including poems from eight previous collections, new poe... Lees meer

Pearls That Soak My Dress

Jahan Malek Khatun

• Paperback | Engels
• Jahan Khatun was a fourteenth-century Persian princess who lived through tumultuous political upheavals: her father was murdered when she was a teenag... Lees meer

Vis and Ramin

Fakhraddin Gorgani

• Hardcover | Engels
• 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 ... Lees meer

Borrowed Ware

Sa'di Rumi Hafez Rudaki

• Paperback | Engels
• Poet and translator Dick Davis brings together a collection of epigrams by poets from the 'classic' period of Persian literature. It makes a fascinati... Lees meer

Faces of Love

Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun

• Hardcover | Engels
• Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the... Lees meer

Rostam

Abolqasem Ferdowsi

• Hardcover | Engels
• Rostam is Iran's greatest mythological hero, a Persian Hercules, magnificent in strength and courage. This book begins with the birth of Rostam's fath... Lees meer

Belonging

Dick Davis

• Hardcover | Engels
• There are worlds within our own in which even the smallest victories are hard won, the tender moment is almost unbearable, and the understated rings l... Lees meer

My Uncle Napoleon

Iraj Pezeshkzad

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Library (Paperback)
• The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century "God forbid, I've fallen in love with Layli!" So begins the farce of our narrator's life, one ... Lees meer

Father and Sons

Firdawsei

• Hardcover | Engels | Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi | nr. 2
• Volume 2 opens and closes with tales of tragic conflict between a king and his son: Prince Seyavash and Prince Esfandiyar are both driven from the cou... Lees meer

Faces of Love

Dick Davis, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun

• Hardcover | Engels
• This bilingual edition of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz has the original Persian verses facing the English translations. The three Shir... Lees meer

The Mirror of My Heart

• Paperback | Engels
• An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and trans... Lees meer

The Conference of the Birds

Farid Attar

• E-book | Engels
• 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... Lees meer

The Conference of the Birds

Farid Ud-Din Attar

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• 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... Lees meer

The Legend of Seyavash

Firdawsei, Abolqasem Ferdowsi

• Paperback | Engels | Persian Classics
• The Legend of Seyavash comes from the middle section of the Shahnameh, Iran's national epic by the poet Ferdowsi (c940-c1020) and presents a world of ... Lees meer

A Trick of Sunlight

Dick Davis

• Hardcover | Engels
• In his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging , addresses themes that he has long worked with-travel, the experience o... Lees meer

The Ant's Gift

Shahrokh Meskoob

• Paperback | Engels | 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 ... Lees meer

Little Virtues

Natalia Ginzburg

• Paperback | Engels
• "As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, "I think the... Lees meer

Epic and Sedition

Dick Davis

• Paperback | Engels
• Iran's national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, has traditionally been regarded by both Persians and Westerners as a poem celebrating the the central... Lees meer