Persian

Pages

• Glossary — A shelf-specific glossary starter for the Persian shelf.
• Introduction to Persian Literature — A source-conscious introduction to the current Persian shelf: Helen Zimmern's 1883 Epic of Kings as a public-domain doorway into Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Iranian heroic memory, kingship, fate, Ormuzd and Ahriman, justice, family tragedy, and the Good Works duty not to mistake one Victorian prose retelling for the whole Persian literary world.
• Reader's Guide to Persian — A reader guide to the Persian shelf in the Good Works Library.
• The Epic of Kings — Helen Zimmern — A Good Works archival presentation of Helen Zimmern's 1883 English prose retelling of selected Shahnameh hero tales, here beginning with Feridoun and ending with the death of Rustem.