Cover of the English-language edition, listed on Mercado Livre.
Classic
Shahnameh
The greatest epic of the Persian language, in verse: heroes, kings, and the fall of empires across more than fifty thousand couplets. This Penguin Classics edition brings Dick Davis's translation, in English — for slow reading, in pieces.
Quick facts
The book at a glance.
- Author
- Abolqasem Ferdowsi
- Genre
- Classic · Epic
- Edition
- Penguin Classics — translated by Dick Davis
- Edition language
- English
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