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Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

Product Description: Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literatureÂ Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era...read more

By Dick Davis (trans)

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9780143107286 | Deluxe edition (Penguin Classics, August 27, 2013), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literatureÂ Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era.

9781933823539, titled "Faces of Love: Hafez & the Poets of Shiraz" | Gardners Books, August 16, 2012, cover price $42.25 | About this edition: Persian Text of the Poems in: Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz, introduced and translated by Dick Davis (ISBN 1933823488)

All of It: New and Collected Poems 1967-2010

By Dick Davis

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9780856464416 | Carcanet Pr, October 13, 2011, cover price $28.85

Shahnameh: The Persian Book Of Kings

A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

By Dick Davis (trans) and Abolqasem Ferdowsi

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9780670034857 | Viking Pr, March 2, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire.

9780934211970 | Slp edition (Mage Pub, August 30, 2004), cover price $325.00

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9780143104933 | Deluxe edition (Penguin Classics, February 27, 2007), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire.

Rostam: Tales of Love and War from the Shahnameh

Product Description: The selected adventures of Persia's Hercules, from Iran's great national epic No understanding of world mythology is complete without acquaintance with Rostam, Iran's most celebrated mythological hero. According to the Shahnameh (the tenth-century Book of Kings), this titan, magnificent in strength and courage, bestrode Persia for 500 years...read more

By Dick Davis (trans) and Abolqasem Ferdowsi

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9780143105893, titled "Rostam: Tales of Love & War from the Shahnameh" | Penguin Classics, September 29, 2009, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The selected adventures of Persia's Hercules, from Iran's great national epic No understanding of world mythology is complete without acquaintance with Rostam, Iran's most celebrated mythological hero.

At Home, and Far from Home: Poems on Iran and Persian Culture

Product Description: Persian poetry, a literary heritage as rich as any in the world, found a brilliantly versatile voice when Dick Davis began his career as a translator several decades ago. Yet his English-language renderings ranging from epics such as The Shahnameh and Vis & Ramin to the concentrated wisdom of Rumi and Hafez--are just one measure of his gifts with words...read more

By Dick Davis

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9781933823294 | Mage Pub, March 31, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Persian poetry, a literary heritage as rich as any in the world, found a brilliantly versatile voice when Dick Davis began his career as a translator several decades ago.

Vis & Ramin

By Dick Davis (trans)

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9781933823171 | Mage Pub, April 30, 2008, cover price $45.00

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9780143105626 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, April 7, 2009), cover price $17.00 | also contains VIS AND RAMIN

Autumn-Born in Autumn: Selected Poems

Product Description: Matthew Mead began publishing his poetry in the 1960s. By then he had, as Peter Riley noted, located a sense of poetry for which he drew widely from Anglo-American writing, avoiding any programmes of allegiance.â Over the years he has published five collections of poetry...read more

By Dick Davis (other contributor) and Matthew Mead

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9780856464003 | Carcanet Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Matthew Mead began publishing his poetry in the 1960s.

The Dick Davis Dividend: Straight Talk on Making Money from 40 Years on Wall Street

An experienced, highly regarded investor shares timeless wisdom and unconventional insights based on his own four-decade career, offering a case study that combines both passive investing in index funds and active investing in stocks and mutual funds for maximum financial return, as well as a look at challenges confronting modern investors and how to overcome them successfully.

By Dick Davis

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9780470099032 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 10, 2007, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An experienced, highly regarded investor shares timeless wisdom and unconventional insights based on his own four-decade career, offering a case study that combines both passive investing in index funds and active investing in stocks and mutual funds for maximum financial return, as well as a look at challenges confronting modern investors and how to overcome them successfully.

Miscellaneous:

9780470225813 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 7, 2008, cover price $29.95

Obeyd-e Zakani, Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works

Product Description: "In the arts and learning be not proficient like me,Lest by the great you will be despised like me.If you desire favors from the masters of our timeBeg shamelessly, play the lute and be a libertine." Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West...read more

By Dick Davis (trans), Hasan Javadi (trans) and Obeyd Zakani

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9781933823225, titled "Obeyd-E Zakani: Ethics of the Aristocrats & Other Satirical Works" | Mage Pub, December 31, 2007, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: "In the arts and learning be not proficient like me,Lest by the great you will be despised like me.

Incredibly Lonely, That's Me

Melissa grieves for her big sister, Laura, who has died, and it makes her feel very lonely.

By Diana Barnard (contributor), Dick Davis (illustrator) and Ben Keckler

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9780976909323 | Eagle Creek Pubns Llc, September 1, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Melissa grieves for her big sister, Laura, who has died, and it makes her feel very lonely.

Rostam: Tales of Love & War from Persia's Book of Kings

By Dick Davis (trans) and Abolqasem Ferdowsi

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9781933823119 | Mage Pub, March 21, 2007, cover price $25.00

From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table

Product Description: Wine is seen as the natural partner of many great cuisines, but few people associate in with Persian food. The ties, in fact, are age-old. This book weaves together history, poetry, a look at modern viniculture, recipes and wine pairings to celebrate the rightful relationship of wine and food on the Persian table...read more

By Najmieh Batmanglij, Dick Davis and Burke Owens

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9781933823003 | Mage Pub, August 1, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Wine is seen as the natural partner of many great cuisines, but few people associate in with Persian food.

A Trick of Sunlight: Poems

Presents a collection of poems that explore the themes of travel, love, happiness, and the clash of cultures.

By Dick Davis

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9780804010887 | Swallow Pr, June 5, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poems that explore the themes of travel, love, happiness, and the clash of cultures.

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9780804010894 | Swallow Pr, July 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poems that explore the themes of travel, love, happiness, and the clash of cultures.

Epic & Sedition: The Case of Ferdowsis Shahnameh

Product Description: Iran's national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, has traditionally been regarded by both Persians and Westerners as a poem celebrating the the central role of monarchy in Persian history. In this groundbreaking book, Dick Davis argues that the poem is far more than a patriotic chronicle of kingly deeds...read more

By Dick Davis

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9780934211550 | Mage Pub, January 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Iran's national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, has traditionally been regarded by both Persians and Westerners as a poem celebrating the central role of monarchy in Persian history.

9781557282514, titled "Epic and Sedition: The Case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh" | Univ of Arkansas Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Iran's national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, has traditionally been regarded by both Persians and Westerners as a poem celebrating the the central role of monarchy in Persian history.

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9781933823058, titled "Epic And Sedition: The Case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh" | Lulu.Com, June 30, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Iran's national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, has traditionally been regarded by both Persians and Westerners as a poem celebrating the the central role of monarchy in Persian history.

My Uncle Napoleon

A teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much-protected daughter of 'Napoleon,' the curmugeonly patriarch of a large and extended Iranian family in 1940s Tehran. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Dick Davis (trans), Azar Nafisi (introduced by) and Iraj Pezeshkzad

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9780812974430 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, April 11, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much-protected daughter of 'Napoleon,' the curmugeonly patriarch of a large and extended Iranian family in 1940s Tehran.

My Uncle Napoleon

Product Description: Set in a garden in Tehran in the early 1940s, where three families live under the tyranny of a paranoid patriarch, My Uncle Napoleon is a rich, comic and brilliantly on-target send-up of Iranian society. The novel is, at its core, a love story...read more

By Dick Davis and Iraj Pizishkzad

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9780934211482 | Mage Pub, June 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Set in a garden in Tehran in the early 1940s, where three families live under the tyranny of a paranoid patriarch, My Uncle Napoleon is a rich, comic and brilliantly on-target send-up of Iranian society.

My Friend, Matilda

Tells the story of the loyal, unwavering friendship and love of a golden retriever for a child during the boy's fight with a terminal illness.

By Dick Davis (illustrator) and Ben Keckler

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9780976909316 | Eagle Creek Pubns Llc, December 30, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of the loyal, unwavering friendship and love of a golden retriever for a child during the boy's fight with a terminal illness.

From Here to There

From Here to There is at once a poetic story-book and a work-book, beneficial for all ages of children (and adults). Readers are invited into a journey of their own feelings, particularly as they deal with challenging times of transition or grief or loss. This book acknowledges the difficult emotional struggles people encounter in their quest to find rainbows of hope while working through difficult times.

By Dick Davis (illustrator) and Ben Keckler

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9780976909309 | Csm edition (Eagle Creek Pubns Llc, August 31, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A young man learns about life transitions, even dying, by probing for answers he discovers are within himself.

Shahnameh: Persian Book Of Kings

By Dick Davis and Firdawsi

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9780934211994 | Mage Pub, October 1, 2004, cover price $55.01

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9780934211987 | Mage Pub, October 1, 2004, cover price $22.01

Borrowed Ware

Product Description: In Borrowed Ware, poet and translator Dick Davis brings together a collection of epigrams by poets from the "classic" period of Persian literature. It makes a fascinating introduction to a literature that is little known in the West, and incidentally provides insight into a vanished and extraordinary way of life...read more

By Dick Davis

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9780934211383 | Mage Pub, May 30, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In Borrowed Ware, poet and translator Dick Davis brings together a collection of epigrams by poets from the "classic" period of Persian literature.

The Legend of Seyavash

By Dick Davis and Firdawsi

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9780934211918 | Rev new edition (Mage Pub, March 1, 2004), cover price $19.95

9780140445664 | Penguin USA, September 1, 1992, cover price $8.95

Sunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi

Product Description: Among the masterpieces of world literature, perhaps the least familiar to English readers is the Persian Book of Kings (Shahnameh, in Persian). This prodigious national epic, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between 980 and 1010, tells the story of ancient Persia, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab-Islamic invasion...read more

By Dick Davis and Firdawsi

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9780934211680 | Mage Pub, December 1, 2003, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Among the masterpieces of world literature, perhaps the least familiar to English readers is the Persian Book of Kings (Shahnameh, in Persian).

Panthea's Children: Hellenistic Novels and Medieval Persian Romances

By Dick Davis

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9780933273658, titled "Panthea's Children: Hellenistic Novels and Medieval Persian Romances" | Bibliotheca Persica, December 1, 2002, cover price $55.01

Belonging: Poems

The poet delves deeply into the political and personal chasms that separate human beings, pealing back the layers of relationship within normal families to reveal the shared history that defines us. (Poetry) (view table of contents)

By Dick Davis

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9780804010429 | Swallow Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The poet delves deeply into the political and personal chasms that separate human beings, pealing back the layers of relationship within normal families to reveal the shared history that defines us.

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9780804010436 | Swallow Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The poet delves deeply into the political and personal chasms that separate human beings, pealing back the layers of relationship within normal families to reveal the shared history that defines us.

Devices and Desires: New and Selected Poems 1967-1987

Product Description: `Devices and Desires' is Dick Davis's selection from his three earlier books, together with twenty-three new poems. This collection by one of England's most original, yet traditional, poets demonstrates the range of themes which he commands, and the gift for clear, memorable and subtle writing which has won a wide readership for his poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dick Davis

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9780856462085 | Carcanet Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: `Devices and Desires' is Dick Davis's selection from his three earlier books, together with twenty-three new poems.

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