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Books narrated by Dick Davis

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  • The Mirror of My Heart

    A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    by Dick Davis ...
    **An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis.A Penguin Classic**The Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of eighty-three Persian women poets, many of whom wrote anonymously or were punished for their outspokenness. One of the very first Persian poets was ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Places Lost and Found

    Travel Essays from the Hudson Review

    The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual curiosity and ... Read more

    $40.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Trick of Sunlight

    Poems

    by Dick Davis ...
    In his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging, addresses themes that he has long worked with—travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the vagaries of love, the pleasures and epiphanies of meaning that art allows us. But A Trick of Sunlight introduces a new theme that revolves around the idea of happiness—is it possible, must it be illusory, ... Read more

    $14.84 CAD

  • Belonging

    Poems

    by Dick Davis ...
    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 like a bell. Belonging, a new collection by British poet Dick Davis, is an extended visit to these worlds.Deepened by his dry wit and the formal rigor of his verse, the poems of Belonging negotiate their way among personal and political divides ... Read more

    $14.84 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Faces of Love

    Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literatureTogether, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era. All three lived in the famed city of Shiraz, a provincial capital of south ... Read more

    $18.00 CAD

  • Layli and Majnun

    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    **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 translationA 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Khosrow and Shirin

    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    **A tragic epic love story before Romeo and Juliet, by one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, in a modern-verse English translation by Dick DavisA Penguin Classic**Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about Khosrow and Shirin shares a shelf with the most intensely romantic classic stories readers love, from ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Khosrow and Shirin

    Unabridged

    11 hours 50 min

    **A tragic epic love story before Romeo and Juliet, by one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, in a modern-verse English translation by Dick DavisA Penguin Classic**Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about Khosrow and Shirin shares a shelf with the most intensely romantic classic stories readers love, from ... Read more

    $27.89 CAD

  • My Uncle Napoleon

    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    "The existence in Persian literature of a full-scale, abundantly inventive comic novel that involves a gallery of varied and highly memorable characters, not to mention scenes of hilarious farcical mayhem, may come as a surprise to a Western audience used to associating Iran with all that is in their eyes dour, dire and dreadful." (From the Preface)Set in a garden in Tehran in the early 1940s, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Vis and Ramin

    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 remarkable work has now been superbly translated into heroic couplets (the closest metrical equivalent of the Persian) by the poet and scholar Dick Davis.Vis & Ramin had immense influence on later Persian poetry and is very probably also the source ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ant's Gift

    A Study of the Shahnameh

    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    Series series 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 The Ant’s Gift, Meskoob applies his insight and considerable analytical skills to the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran completed in 1010 by the poet Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi. Tracing Iran’s history from its first mythical king to the fall of the ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Khosrow and Shirin

    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    Khosrow and Shirin is a love story by Nezami Ganjavi--considered the greatest medieval Persian romance poet--based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court. Written 850 years ago, the narrative poem is presented here for the first time in a stunning modern-verse English translation by Dick Davis, the pre-eminent translator of Persian poetry.The love between an Iranian prince ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus