Shahnameh

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 century As a window on the world, Shahnameh belongs in the company of such literary masterpieces as Dante s Divine Comedy, the plays of Shakespeare, 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 greatest modern translator of Persian poetry, has revisited that poem, turning the finest stories of Ferdowsi s original into an elegant combination of prose and verse For the first time in English, in the most complete form possible, readers can experience Shahnameh in the same way that Iranian storytellers have lovingly conveyed it in Persian for the past thousand years. Download Shahnameh by Abolqasem Ferdowsi – kino-fada.fr The history of the world is a history of jerks Starting with Gilgamesh, our earliest epic hero, who makes everyone wrestle him until they are exhausted then goes off to sleep with their wives while they pray to the gods to deliver them, to Achilles sulking in his tent, the Athenians sentencing Socrates to die because he talks too much, or Tacitus writing of how Caligula, Claudius, and Nero ruled through assassination and manipulation.Sure, there are always a few level headed, intelligent fellow The history of the world is a history of jerks Starting with Gilgamesh, our earliest epic hero, who makes everyone wrestle him until they are exhausted then goes off to sleep with their wives while they pray to the gods to deliver them, to Achilles sulking in his tent, the Athenians sentencing Socrates to die because he talks too much, or Tacitus writing of how Caligula, Claudius, and Nero ruled through assassination and manipulation.Sure, there are always a few level headed, intelligent...Shahnameh The Persian Book of Kings 2 , Abolqasem Ferdowsi 1992 1370 518 11 Shahnameh The Persian Book of Kings 2 , Abolqasem Ferdowsi 1992 1370 518 11Shahnameh The Persian Book of Kings Vol 9, Abolqasem FerdowsiThe first modern critical edition of the Shahnameh was prepared by a Russian team led by E E Bertels, using the oldest known manuscripts at the time, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, with heavy reliance on the 1276 manuscript from the British Museum and the 1333 Leningrad manuscript, the latter of ...4000Shahnameh The Persian Book of Kings, Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis Translator , Azar Nafisi Foreword 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 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 seve Shahnameh The Persian Book of Kings, Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis Translator , Azar Nafisi Foreword 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 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 cen...This is perhaps the greatest collection of stories I have ever read It is a true dream book if you love wonder stories, myths and heroic epics this is the kind of saga you dream about Every story is better than the one preceding it and it keeps mounting until it reaches heights of imagination and storytelling that are all but untouchable As in Persian poetry the language is rich, layered and achingly beautiful It is basically a long family saga but it never gets too complicated to follow This is perhaps the gr...100 1000 50 200 The olden kings gave us the gift of a peaceful holiday.Calling for wine and musicians at the onset of springThey forgave, they forgot, and drank their worries away.This is a review of the edition of Shanameh published by the Quantuck Lane Press It is an adaptation, as labeled on the first page it is certainly shorter than the full text as listed for the Penguin etc editions But it is accompanied by beautifully ornate, full illustrations on every page, original to the edition, and the text ce The olden kings gave us the gift of a peaceful holiday.Calling for wine and musici...

• English
• 14 May 2017
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
• Hardcover
• 886 pages
• 0670034851
• Abolqasem Ferdowsi
• Shahnameh