The Adventures of Amir Hamza
10 best books like The Adventures of Amir Hamza (Ghalib Lakhnavi): Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering, The Debt of Tears, Poor Fellow My Country, Vis and Ramin, Collected Ancient Greek Novels, Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love), Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Fortunata and Jacinta, The Fabliaux
| Author | Abolqasem Ferdowsi |
| ISBN | 0670034851 |
Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the "Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings," the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning...
| Author | Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng |
| ISBN | 0691016143 |
This first of five planned volumes begins David Roy's long-awaited complete and annotated translation of an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel, the famous Chin P'ing Mei. A work known primarily for its erotic realism, the Chin P'ing Mei is also a landmark in the development of narrative art...
| Author | Xueqin Cao |
| ISBN | 0140443711 |
"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known by the title of "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which "The Debt of Tears" is the fourth, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords...
| Author | Xavier Herbert |
| ISBN | 0002215888 |
In Poor Fellow, My Country, Xavier Herbert returns to the region made his own in Capricornia: Northern Australia. Ranging over a period of some six years, the story is set during the late 1930s and early 1940s; but it is not so much a tale of this period as Herbert's analysis and indictment of the steps by...
| Author | Fakhraddin Gorgani |
| ISBN | 1933823178 |
دوستان گرانقدر، این شاعر توانا، بسیار زیبا و دلنشین سروده است... هربار که این هنرمندیِ زنده یاد <فخرالدین> گرامی را میخوانم، باز هم شوق و اشتیاقِ بارِ...
| Author | Bryan P. Reardon |
| ISBN | 0520043065 |
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure to which they are related. Popular in the Renaissance, these stories...
| Author | Matteo Maria Boiardo |
| ISBN | 1932559019 |
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit...
| Author | Lady Augusta Gregory |
| ISBN | 0486417174 |
One of the leading lights of the late-19th-century Irish literary renaissance, the Irish writer, folklorist, and playwright Lady Augusta Gregory was instrumental in collecting and preserving the folklore of her country. She translated these tales of the legendary Cuchulain — an Irish Achilles...
| Author | Benito Pérez Galdós |
| ISBN | 0140433058 |
Capturing a ninteenth-century Spanish world of political tumult and personal obsession, Benito Pérez Galdós's Fortunata and Jacinta tells of two women who love the same man unfailingly—one as his mistress, the other as his wife.
In this new and complete translation, Agnes Moncy Gullón...
| Author | Nathaniel E. Dubin |
| ISBN | 0871403579 |
Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, The Fabliaux depicts priapic priests, randy wives, and their cuckolded husbands...
“Told against the background of a real-life CIA coup, The Tehran Conviction mixes historical fact with vivid storytelling in ways that will delight readers of both.”
—Stephen Kinzer, New York Times Bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men
Bestselling thriller...
Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women
| Author | Cynthia Heimel |
| ISBN | 0671477250 |
Without this glorious, hilarious, and enlightening book, an entire generation of ten-year-olds might never have had access to detailed instructions on the mechanics of giving great head.
Cynthia Heimel is one of the rare authors whom it was not a crushing disappointment to meet. When my...
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0253207878 |
This new translation brings to life for a new generation of readers the stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, Gawain, Perceval, Yvain, and the other "knights and ladies" of Chretien de Troyes' famous romances.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Erec...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea / The Mysterious Island / Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Around the World in Eighty Days
| Author | Jules Verne |
| ISBN | 1566195365 |
A pioneer of the now immensely popular genre of fiction we call science fiction, Jules Verne wrote startling adventure stories that not only vividly captured the imagination of the 19th-century reading public, but are still read avidly today. Filled with wondrous voyages, marvelous semi-scientific...
| Author | Richard Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0520248406 |
Beginning in the year 711 and continuing for nearly a thousand years, the Islamic presence survived in Spain, at times flourishing, and at other times dwindling into warring fiefdoms. But the culture and science thereby brought to Spain, including long-buried knowledge from Greece, largely forgotten...
| Author | Roy Mottahedeh |
| ISBN | 1851682341 |
This is a breathtaking intellectual history of Iran, starting from its pre-Islamic history all the way up the present day, and narrated alongside the story of one man in particular: a mullah trained in modern Iran's Shia seminaries. The scope of the book is really incredible and it would difficult to...
Hoshruba: The Land and the Tilism
| Author | Muhammad Husain Jah |
| ISBN | 0978069552 |
The world's first and longest magical fantasy HOSHRUBA was compiled in the Urdu language by two of its greatest prose writers. Spread over eight thousand pages, it reached the summits of popularity and acclaim never attained by any other epic in the history of Urdu literature. But the richness of its...
The publication of Edward Said's hugely influential Orientalism in 1981 called into question the entire history of the Western study of Islamic culture, condemning this scholarly tradition as one that presented inaccurate and deliberately demeaning representations of Islamic peoples and institutionsso...
| Author | Adina Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0300141505 |
Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist’s eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged.
Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948. He traveled on foot...
Okay, I'm not going to sit here and pretend I read all of this. I'm not even going to claim that heretofore allegedly there may or may not have been a point the duration of which is uncertain that a person, namely myself, might have concurrently been disposed to a proportionate reading of the aforementioned...
Things That Make Us (Sic): The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar Takes on Madison Avenue, Hollywood, the White House, and the World
| Author | Martha Brockenbrough |
| ISBN | 0312378084 |
This book is for people who experience heartbreak over love notes with subject-verb disagreements...for anyone who's ever considered hanging up the phone on people who pepper their speech with such gems as "irregardless", "expresso" or "disorientated" ... and for the earnest souls who wonder if...
The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922
| Author | Donald Quataert |
| ISBN | 0521547822 |
The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines...
| Author | Jared Cohen |
| ISBN | 1592403247 |
Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face to face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth—and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype.
Classrooms were never sufficient for Jared Cohen; he wanted to learn about global...
