Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 35 results for “dick davis”
Skip side bar filters

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Layli and Majnun

    by Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis ...
    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

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Shahnameh

    The Persian Book of Kings

    by Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    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 editionA Penguin ClassicDick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Conference of the Birds

    by Farid Attar ...
    Narrated by Dick Davis, Paul Chahidi ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Shahnameh

    The Persian Book of Kings

    by Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Narrated by Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Dick Davis ...

    Unabridged

    47 hours 43 min

    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 editionDick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • The Conference of the Birds

    by Farid Attar ...
    Translated by Afkham Darbandi, Dick Davis ...
    Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Mirror of My Heart

    A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

    by Dick Davis, Dick Davis ...
    Narrated by Dick Davis, Tala Ashe, Serena Manteghi, Mozhan Marnò ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours

    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.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 a woman (Rabe'eh, who ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Khosrow and Shirin

    by Nezami Ganjavi ...
    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

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Khosrow and Shirin

    by Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis ...
    Narrated by Dick Davis, Peter Ganim, Mozhan Navabi ...

    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

    $23.00 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • My Uncle Napoleon

    by Iraj Pezeshkzad ...
    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

    $9.99 USD

  • Love in Another Language

    Collected Poems and Selected Translations

    by Dick Davis ...
    In Love in Another Language Dick Davis is shown to be the outstanding formal poet of his generation, a master of rhyme and metre, a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tradition. His Collected Poems draws on eight previous publications and includes a section of new work. Davis has also established himself as 'the leading translator of Persian literature in our time' ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ribspreader

    by Matthew R Davis, Dick Dale ...
    The cartoon cigarette on the bill board outside my window is speaking to me. Sigmund laughs at my cries and tells me that I know what must be done... And he's right - Murder City is full of black hearts and blacker lungs So I'll claim them and I'll cleanse them... they look better on me. By night I stalk the streets, my saw spinning hot and hungry I am the RIBSPREADER.Dick Dale's directorial debut ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    PRE-ORDER