Название: Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Автор: Abolqasem Ferdowsi; Dick Davis (trans.)
Издательство: Penguin Classics
Год: 2016
Формат: epub
Страниц: 1040
Размер: 23.7 Мб
Язык: English
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 edition. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. The stories of the Shahnameh are deeply embedded in Persian culture and beyond, as attested by their appearance in such works as The Kite Runner and the love poems of Rumi and Hafez.