Layli and Majnun - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis (Translator), Dick Davis (Introduction by)Publish date:2021-02-09Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143133995ISBN-10:143133993UPC:9780143133995Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCXDZDY92Y
Layli and Majnun
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 masterly new translation A Penguin Classic The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143133995ISBN-10:143133993UPC:9780143133995Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCXDZDY92Y
Nezami Ganjavi (1141-1209) is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature. A Sunni Muslim born to a Persian father and a Kurdish mother, he lived most of his life in his hometown of Ganjeh, in present-day Azerbaijan. He was married three times; all three of his wives predeceased him, and, rarely for a Persian poet of his time, he wrote with apparently heartfelt and...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis (Translator), Dick Davis (Introduction by)
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