SHAHNAMEH (PENGUIN CLASSICS) (PB)

Among the greatest works of world literature, this prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi in the late tenth century, tells the story of pre-Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. This revised and expanded translation by Dick Davis of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, includes more than 100 pages of newly translated text.