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Shahnameh

Ferdowsi

History / Persia, Iran, and the Jewish world

Shahnameh, Ferdowsi
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The Persian Book of Kings, Ferdowsi's epic of Iran's mythical and historical past, completed around 1010. Davis renders it in a mix of prose and verse.

Edition
Penguin Classics, translated by Dick Davis

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