VIS AND RAMIN. Translated from the Persian, with an Introduction and Notes by Dick Davis.

Gorgani, Fakhraddin.

ISBN 10: 1933823178 / ISBN 13: 9781933823171

Published by Mage, Washington DC 2008., 2008

About this Item

1st edition thus.8vo. [xlvii] + 517pp. + adverts. Original cloth. Original pictorial grey d/w. lettered in white, minor wear to edges. Signed by the editor. ISBN 1933823178 US$13.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: VIS AND RAMIN. Translated from the Persian, with an Introduction and Notes by Dick Davis.
• Publisher: Mage, Washington DC 2008.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933823178
• ISBN 13: 9781933823171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Very little is known with any certainty about Gorgani. His name suggests that he (or his family) was from the town of Gorgan to the east of the Caspian, and his frequent references to Gorgan in Vis and Ramin perhaps confirm this. He wrote his great romance, Vis and Ramin, in isfahan, at some time between 1050 and 1055, when he was a member of the retinue of the local ruler.