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Anonymous Anonymous THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Translated by E. A. Wallis Budge TALES OF 1001 NIGHTS Edited with an Introduction Newly Translated by Malcom C. Lyons and Notes by John Romer with Ursula Lyons Penguin Classics • 992 pp. • 978-0-14-045550-2 • $20.00 Introduction and Notes by Robert Irwin Two Cambridge scholars of Arabic literature present the first complete English translation since 1884 of one of the THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH Translated and Introduced by Andrew George greatest works of world literature. “The Arabian Nights is not a book to be read in a week. It is an ocean of stories “George’s translation is the most complete and authori- to be dipped into over a lifetime. And this new Penguin tative to date. Noteworthy is his pioneering treatment of edition is the one to have.”—The Sunday Times (UK). the Sumerian Gilgamesh poems.”—Benjamin R. Foster, Yale University. 28 line drawings, 1 map. VOLUME 1 Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044919-8 • $13.00 Penguin Classics • 992 pp. • 978-0-14-044938-9 • $20.00 Translated by N. K. Sandars VOLUME 2 Penguin Classics • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-044100-0 • $11.00 Penguin Classics • 800 pp. • 978-0-14-044939-6 • $20.00 VOLUME 3 POEMS OF HEAVEN AND HELL Penguin Classics • 800 pp. • 978-0-14-044940-2 • $20.00 FROM ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA NEW EDITION! Translated and Introduced by N. K. Sandars TALES FROM 1,001 NIGHTS Five poems from the second millennium B.C., with in- ALADDIN, ALI BABA, AND OTHER FAVORITES dividual introductions and notes. Newly Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-044249-6 • $14.00 with Ursula Lyons Introduction and Notes by Robert Irwin. Mir Amman The essential one-volume edition ofThe Arabian A TALE OF FOUR DERVISHES Nights, abridged from the celebrated new three-volume Translated and Introduced translation. by Mohammed Zakir Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-119166-9 • $18.00 This Urdu epic was originally composed in the 14th THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, Volume I century and made popular in 1803 by Mir Amman’s THE MARVELS AND WONDERS colloquial retelling. Glossary. OF THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-045518-2 • $13.00 Translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton Adapted by Jack Zipes New Introduction by Daniel Beaumont Farid Ud-Din Attar Signet Classics • 624 pp. • 978-0-451-53059-2 • $6.95 THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS Translated and Introduced NEW EDITION! by Afkam Darbandi and Dick Davis THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, Volume II “This inexpensive unabridged translation, which re- New Introduction by John Barth Signet Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-451-52749-3 • $7.95 casts the text into a poetic English form, is of great val- ue for historians of religion and comparative literature TALES FROM THE specialists.”—Richard C. Martin. THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-044434-6 • $15.00 Translated and Introduced by N. J. Dawood Penguin Classics • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-044289-2 • $15.00 Abolqasem Ferdowsi ROSTAM: TALES OF LOVE AND WAR NEW IN PAPERBACK! FROM THE SHAHNAMEH ISLAMIC MYSTICAL POETRY Translated with an Introduction SUFI VERSE FROM by Dick Davis THE EARLY MYSTICS TO RUMI The selected adventures of Persia’s most celebrated Selected with an Introduction mythological hero, from Iran’s great national epic. “An and Notes by Mahmood Jamal exquisite blend of poetry and prose.”—The New York Starting with the writings of eighth-century mystics, Times Book Review. “Davis’s wonderful translation this anthology moves through a transcendent selection will show Western readers why Ferdowsi’s masterpiece of poetry from the early Islamic era, culminating in the is one of the [Persian world’s] most revered and most early twentieth century. beloved classics.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-042473-7 • $17.00 Runner. Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-310589-3 • $16.00 MIDDLE EAST STUDIES 3 PENGUIN GROUP USA LITERARY CLASSICS Abolqasem Ferdowsi Hafiz SHAHNAMEH: THE PERSIAN BOOK OF KINGS THE GIFT: POEMS BY THE GREAT SUFI MASTER Translated by Dick Davis Translated by Daniel Ladinsky Foreword by Azar Nafisi Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-019581-1 • $18.00 “[A] magnificent translation.”—The Washington Post. I HEARD GOD LAUGHING “Davis brings to his translation a nuanced awareness of POEMS OF HOPE AND JOY Ferdowsi’s subtle rhythms and cadences...rendered in Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky an exquisite blend of poetry and prose.”—The New York “Ladinsky is a master who will be remembered for fi- Times. Deluxe edition with French flaps. nally bringing Hafiz alive in the West.”—The Christian Penguin Classics • 928 pp. • 978-0-14-310493-3 • $27.00 Science Monitor. Penguin • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-303781-1 • $15.00 Gustave Flaubert THE SUBJECT TONIGHT IS LOVE FLAUBERT IN EGYPT 60 WILD AND SWEET POEMS OF HAFIZ, Translated and Edited by Francis Steegmuller THE GREAT SUFI MASTER Captures the young writer’s impressions during his Translated by Daniel Ladinsky 1849 voyages through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo Penguin • 88 pp. • 978-0-14-019623-8 • $15.00 and down the Nile to the Red Sea. Photographs. Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-043582-5 • $16.00 Omar Khayyam THE RUBA’IYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Kahlil Gibran Translated and Introduced by THE STORM: STORIES AND PROSE POEMS Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs Translated by John Walbridge Penguin Classics • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-044384-4 • $11.00 Introduction by Robin Waterfield Penguin • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-019552-1 • $12.00 32 full-page color illustrations, appendices, and an essay Also available: The Beloved 978-0-14-019553-8 and on Persian painting. The Vision 978-0-14-019554-5 Penguin • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-005954-0 • $14.00 Fakhraddin Gorgani James Kritzeck, editor VIS AND RAMIN ANTHOLOGY OF Translated and Edited with ISLAMIC LITERATURE an Introduction by Dick Davis FROM THE RISE OF ISLAM TO MODERN TIMES A masterful translation of the 11th-century epic Persian Plume • 400 pp. • 978-0-452-00879-3 • $25.00 romance. Penguin Classics • 576 pp. • 978-0-14-310562-6 • $17.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK! Daniel Ladinsky NEW! with Nancy Owen Barton Hafez, Jahan Khatun, THE PURITY OF DESIRE and Obayd-e Zakani 100 POEMS OF RUMI FACES OF LOVE Renowned for his poignant renderings of Hafiz’s mysti- HAFEZ AND THE POETS OF SHIRAZ cal texts, Daniel Ladinsky captures the beauty, intimacy, Translated by Dick Davis and musicality of another of Islam’s most beloved poets Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into and spiritual thinkers. the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-312161-9 • $16.00 Persian literature. Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-310728-6 • $18.00 Rumi THE GLANCE NEW IN PAPERBACK! SONGS OF SOUL-MEETING Hafiz Translated by Coleman Barks A YEAR WITH HAFIZ Penguin • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-100231-6 • $15.00 DAILY CONTEMPLATIONS SPIRITUAL VERSES Translated with an Introduction Translated and Edited with an by Daniel Ladinsky Introduction and Notes by Alan Williams The poems of Hafiz are not literary remnants from a Penguin Classics • 464 pp.