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Eastern Literature


Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema: The Chess-Players

A Bibliography of my Collection


Sections:
Indian Literature
Persian Literature
Turkish Literature
Other Eastern Literatures


Categories:
  1. Classical
  2. Modern
  3. Anthologies & Secondary Literature


    Classical:

    Authors & Works:

    1. Mir Amman (c.17th century-18th century)
    2. Babur (1483-1530)
    3. The Jātaka Tales (c.5th century)
    4. Kālidāsa (c.4th-6th century)
    5. Kalyana Malla (c.15th-16th century)
    6. The Mahābhārata (c.4th century BC)
    7. Narayana (c.12th century)
    8. The Pañcatantra (c.3rd century BC)
    9. The Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā (c.12th century)
    10. Śivadāsa (c.12th-14th century)
    11. Somadeva (c.11th century)
    12. Vālmīki (c. 4th century BC)
    13. Mallanaga Vātsyāyana (c.4th-6th century)


    Mir Amman (c.17th-18th century)

  1. Mir Amman. A Tale of Four Dervishes. Translated from the Urdu with an Introduction by Mohammed Zakir. Penguin Classics. New Delhi: Penguin, 1994.


    2. Emperor Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530)

  2. Thackston, Wheeler M., trans & ed. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. 1996. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. The Modern Library. New York: Random House, Inc., 2002.


    3. The Jātaka Tales (c.5th century)

  3. Rhys Davids, T. W. trans. Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jātaka Tales): The Commentarial Introduction Entitled Nidāna-Kathā, The Story of the Lineage. 1880. Broadway Translations. London & New York: Routledge & Dutton, 1925.

  4. Cowell, E. B., ed. The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births. Trans. R. Chambers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis & R. A. Neil, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, E. B. Cowell & W. H. D. Rouse. 6 vols in 3. 1895-1907. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1990.


    5. Kālidāsa [Devanāgarī] (c.4th-6th century)

  5. Kalidasa. Shakuntala and Other Works. Trans. Arthur W. Ryder. Everyman’s Library 629. 1912. London: J. M. Dent / New York: E. P. Dutton, 1920.


    6. Kalyana Malla (c.15th-16th century)

  6. The Ananga Ranga of Kalyana Malla and The Symposium of Plato. Trans. Richard F. Burton & F. F. Arbuthnot, and Benjamin Jowett. 1885 & 1871. Kimber Pocket Editions. London: William Kimber & Co., Ltd., 1963.


    7. The Mahabharata [Mahābhārata] (c.4th century BC-c.4th century AD)

  7. Ganguli, Kisari Mohan, trans. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa: Translated into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text. 1883-1896. 4 vols. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd., 2002.

  8. Vyasa. Mahabharata: The Epic of Ancient India, Condensed into English Verse. Trans. Romesh Dutt, C.I.E. 1898. The Temple Classics. Ed. Israel Gollancz. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1903.

  9. Mascaró, Juan, trans. The Bhagavad Gita: Translated from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.

  10. van Buitenen, J. trans. The Mahābhārata. Book 1: The Book of the Beginning. 1973. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

  11. Prabhupāda, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is: Complete Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with the original Sanskrit text, Roman transliteration, English equivalents, translation and elaborate purports. 1983. Los Angeles, California: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1994.

  12. Smith, John D. trans. The Mahābhārata: An Abridged Translation. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2009.


    13. Narayana (c.12th century)

  13. Chandiramani, G. L., trans. The Hitopadesha: An Ancient Fabled Classic. 1995. Mumbai: Jaico Publishing House, 1999.


    14. The Panchatantra [Pañcatantra] (c.3rd century BC)

  14. Ryder, Arthur W., trans. The Panchatantra. 1925. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1964.

  15. Edgerton, Franklin, trans. The Panchatantra. London: Allen & Unwin, 1965.

  16. Visnu Sarma. The Pancatantra. Trans. Chandra Rajan. 1993. London: Penguin, 1995.

  17. Olivelle, Patrick, trans. The Pañcatantra: The Book of India’s Folk Wisdom. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.


    18. The Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā [Thirty-two Tales of the Throne] (c.12th century)

  18. Edgerton, Franklin, ed. & trans. Vikrama’s Adventures, or the Thirty-two Tales of the Throne. Harvard Oriental Series, ed. Charles Rockwell Lanman, 26 & 27. 1926. 2 vols. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1993.

  19. Haksar, A. N. D., trans. Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā: Thirty-two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya. New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.

  20. Bhoothalingam, Mathuram. Stories of Vikramaditya. Illustrated by Jomraj. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1982.


    21. Śivadāsa (c.12th-14th century)

  21. [Burton, Richard F. Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry. 1870. Memorial Edition. Ed. Isabel Burton. London: Thylston & Edwards, 1893.]

  22. Śivadāsa. The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie: Vetālapañćavinśati. Trans. Chandra Rajan. 1995. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.


    23. Somadeva (c.11th century)

  23. Penzer, N. M., ed. The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney’s Translation of Somadeva’s Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). 1880-87. 10 vols. London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd., Grafton House, W.1., 1924-1928.

  24. Penzer, N. M., ed. The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney’s Translation of Somadeva’s Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). 1880-87. 10 vols. 1924-28. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1968.

  25. Somadeva. Tales from the Kathāsaritsāgara. Trans. Arshia Sattar. Foreword by Wendy Doniger. 1994. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.

  26. Somadeva. Océan des rivières de contes. Ed. Nalini Balbir, with Mildrède Besnard, Lucien Billoux, Sylvain Brocquet, Colette Caillat, Christine Chojnacki, Jean Fezas & Jean-Pierre Osier. Traduction des ‘Contes du Vampire’ par Louis & Marie-Simone Renou, 1963. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 438. Paris: Gallimard, 1997.


    27. Valmiki [Vālmīki] (c. 4th century BC)

  27. Valmiki. Ramayana: The Epic of Rama, Prince of India, Condensed into English Verse. Trans. Romesh Dutt, C.I.E. 1899. The Temple Classics. Ed. Israel Gollancz. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1903.

  28. Shastri, Hari Prasad, trans. The Ramayana of Valmiki. 1953. 3 vols. London: Shanti Sadan, 1976.


    29. Mallanaga Vātsyāyana (c.4th-6th century)

  29. Burton, Richard F., and F. F. Arbuthnot, trans. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. 1883. Ed. John Muirhead-Gould. 1963. London: Panther, 1968.

  30. Daniélou, Alain, trans. The Complete Kāma Sūtra. The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian text by Vātsyāyana: including the Jayamangalā commentary from the Sanskrit by Yasodhara and extracts from the Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shāstrā. Prepared with the help of Kenneth Hurry. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1994.

  31. Vatsyayana Mallanaga. Kamasutra: A New, Complete Translation of the Sanskrit Text, with Excerpts from the Sanskrit Jayamangala Commentary of Yasodhara Indrapada, the Hindu Jaya Commentary of Devadatta Shastri, and Explanatory Notes by the Translators. Trans. Wendy Doniger & Sudhir Kakar. 2002. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.



    32. The Ocean of Story



    Modern:

    Authors:

    1. Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004)
    2. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894-1950)
    3. Musharraf Ali Farooqi (1968- )
    4. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
    5. Rohinton Mistry (1952- )
    6. Dom Moraes (1938-2004)
    7. R. K. Narayan (1906-2001)
    8. Salman Rushdie (1947- )
    9. Vikram Seth (1952- )
    10. Idries Shah (1924-1996)
    11. Jaspreet Singh (1969- )
    12. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)


    Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004)

  32. Anand, Mulk Raj. Untouchable. 1935. Penguin Modern Classics. Haryana: Penguin Books India, 2001.

    33. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay [Banerji] (1894-1950)

  33. Banerji, Bibhutibhushan. Pather Panchali: Song of the Road. 1929. Trans. T.W. Clark & Tarapada Mukherji. 1968. Lithographs by Janet Archer. London: The Folio Society, 1971.


    34. Musharraf Ali Farooqi (1968- )

  34. Lakhnavi, Ghalib, & Abdullah Bilgrami. The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction. 1855. Trans. Musharraf Ali Farooqi. Introduction by Hamid Dabashi. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.


    35. Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi (1869-1948)

  35. Gandhi, Mohandas K. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. 1927 & 1929. Trans. Mahadev Desai. 1940. Beacon Paperback, 35. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957.

  36. Shirer, William L. Gandhi: A Memoir. 1979. Abacus. London: Sphere Books, 1981.


    37. Rohinton Mistry (1952- )

  37. Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. 1995. London: Faber, 1997.


    38. Dominic Francis [Dom] Moraes (1938-2004)

  38. Moraes, Dom. Collected Poems 1954-2004. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.


    39. Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami [R. K. Narayan] (1906-2001)

  39. Narayan, R. K. The Man-Eater of Malgudi. 1961. A Four Square Book. London: New English Library, 1965.

  40. Narayan, R. K. The Indian Epics Retold: The Ramayana (1972); The Mahabharata (1978); Gods, Demons, and Others (1964). 1995. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2000.

  41. Narayan, R. K. A Story-Teller's World: Stories, Essays, Sketches. 1989. Introduction by Syd Harrex. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1990.


    42. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (1947- )

  42. Rushdie, Salman. Grimus. 1975. Panther Books. Frogmore, St Albans: Granada Publishing Limited, 1977.

  43. Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. 1981. London: Picador, 1982.

  44. Rushdie, Salman. Shame. 1983. A Picador Original. London: Pan Books / Jonathan Cape, 1983.

  45. Rushdie, Salman. The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey. 1987. London: Picador, 1999.

  46. Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses. London: Viking, 1988.

  47. Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. 1990. London: Granta Books, 1991.

  48. Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991. 1991. London: Granta Books, 1992.

  49. Rushdie, Salman. East, West. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994.

  50. Rushdie, Salman. The Moor's Last Sigh. London: Jonathan Cape, 1995.

  51. Rushdie, Salman. The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1999.

  52. Rushdie, Salman. Fury: A Novel. 2001. London: Vintage Books, 2002.

  53. Rushdie, Salman. Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction, 1992-2002. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.

  54. Rushdie, Salman. Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction 1992-2002. 2002. London: Vintage, 2003.

  55. Rushdie, Salman. Shalimar the Clown: A Novel. 2005. London: Vintage Books, 2006.

  56. Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2008.

  57. Rushdie, Salman. Luka and the Fire of Life. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2010.

  58. Rushdie, Salman. Joseph Anton: A Memoir. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2012.

  59. Rushdie, Salman. Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2015.

  60. Rushdie, Salman. The Golden House. Jonathan Cape. London: Vintage Publishing, 2017.

  61. Rushdie, Salman. Quichotte. Jonathan Cape. London: Penguin Random House, 2019.

  62. Rushdie, Salman. Victory City. Jonathan Cape. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2023.

  63. Rushdie, Salman, & Elizabeth West, ed. The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. London: Vintage Books, 1997.


    64. Vikram Seth (1952- )

  64. Seth, Vikram. A Suitable Boy. 1993. A Phoenix Paperback. London: Orion Books Ltd., 1994.


    65. Idries Shah [Sayed Idries el-Hashimi] (1924-1996)

  65. Shah, Idries. The Sufis. 1964. London: Star, 1977.

  66. Shah, Idries, ed. Caravan of Dreams. 1968. London: Quartet Books, 1973.

  67. Shah, Idries. Wisdom of the Idiots. 1969. A Dutton paperback. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1971.

  68. Shah, Idries, ed. World Tales: the Extraordinary Coincidence of Stories Told in All Times, in All Places. 1979. London: Octagon P, 1991.


    69. Jaspreet Singh (1969- )

  69. Singh, Jaspreet. Helium. 2013. London: Bloomsbury India, 2013.


    70. Rabindranath Tagore Gurudev (1861-1941)

  70. Tagore, Rabindranath. Hungry Stones and Other Stories. 1916. Macmillan Pocket Tagore Edition. Madras: Macmillan India, 1973.

  71. Tagore, Rabindranath. Collected Poems and Plays. 1936. Adelaide: Macmillan, 1977.

  72. Tagore, Rabindranath. Poems. Ed. Krishna Kripalani with Amiya Chakravarty, Nirmalchandra Chottopadhyaya, & Pulinbihari Sen. 1942. Calcutta: Visva-Bharati, 1946.

  73. Tagore, Rabindranath. Selected Poems. Trans. William Radice. 1985. Rev. ed. 1987. Rev. ed. 1993. Rev. ed. 1994. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2005.

  74. Dutta, Krishna, & Andrew Robinson. Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. 1995. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1997.


    75. Anthologies & Secondary Literature:

  75. Alphonso-Karkala, John B., trans. An Anthology of Indian Literature. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.

  76. Beck, Brenda E. F., Peter J. Claus, Praphulladata Goswami, & Jawaharlal Handoo, ed. Folktales of India. Foreword by A. K. Ramanujan. Folktales of the World, ed. Richard M. Dorson. 1987. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989.

  77. Brough, John, trans. Poems from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.

  78. De Bary, Wm. Theodore, Stephen Hay, Royal Weiler & Andrew Yarrow, ed. Sources of Indian Tradition. Introduction to Oriental Civilisations. 1958. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988.

  79. de Souza, Eunice de. 101 Folktales from India. Illustrated by Sujata Singh. A Puffin Book. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.

  80. Joshi, Jagdish, illus. Romantic Classics. New Delhi: Children’s Book Trust, 1983.

  81. Keith, A. Berriedale. A History of Sanskrit Literature. 1920. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.

  82. Manucci, Niccolao. Memoirs of the Mogul Court. Trans. William Irvine. 1907. Ed. Michael Edwardes. London: The Folio Society, n.d. [1957].

  83. O’Flaherty, Wendy, trans. Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. 1975. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.

  84. Ramanujan, A. K. ed. Folktales from India: A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-two Languages. 1991. The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library. Pantheon Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 1993.



Bears (c.1500 BC)


[30 books]


Authors & Works:

  1. Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (1145-1221)
  2. Behrouz Boochani (1983- )
  3. Ferdowsi (940-1020)
  4. Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209)
  5. Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
  6. Azar Nafisi (1947- )
  7. Rumi (1207-1273)
  8. Saʿdī (1210-1291)
  9. Tutinama (c. 14th century
  10. Sa'ad ad-Din Varavini (c. 13th century
  11. Anthologies & Secondary Literature


    Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (1145-1221)

  1. Attar, Farid ud-Din. The Conference of the Birds. Trans. Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.

  2. Attar, Farid ud-Din. The Conference of the Birds, Mantiq ut-Tair: A Philosophical Religious Poem in Prose - Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Garcin de Tassy. Trans. C. S. Nott. 1954. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.


    3. Behrouz Boochani (1983- )

  3. Boochani, Behrouz. No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison. Trans. Omid Tofighian. 2018. Picador. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, 2019.


    4. Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Ferdowsī Tūsī (940-1021)

  4. Ferdowsi. The Epic of the Kings: Shah-Nama, the National Epic of Persia. Trans. Reuben Levy. 1967. Rev. Amin Banani. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.

  5. Ferdowsi, Abolqasem. Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings. Trans. Dick Davis. 2007. Rev. ed. Foreword by Azar Nafisi. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2016.


    6. Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209)

  6. Ganjavi, Nizami. Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance. 1197. Trans. Julie Scott Meisami. World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.


    7. Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Abu'l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī (1048-1131)

  7. Avery, Peter, & John Heath-Stubbs, trans. The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam. 1979. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.

  8. Dole, Nathan Haskell, ed. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Multi-Variorum Edition. English, French, German, Italian and Danish Translations Comparatively Arranged in Accordance with the the Text of Edward Fitzgerald's Version, with Further Selections, Notes, Biographies, Bibliographies, and Other Material. 2 vols. Boston: L. C. Page and Company (Incorporated) / London: Macmillan & Co., Limited., 1898.

  9. Fitzgerald, Edward, trans. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Ed. Reynold Alleyne Nicholson. 1909. London: A. & C. Black., 1973.

  10. Fitzgerald, Edward, trans. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Six Plays of Calderon. Everyman’s Library 819. 1928. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1948.

  11. Fitzgerald, Edward, trans. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Courage and Friendship Booklets, 2. Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs, n.d. [1941]

  12. Ganz, Charles, ed. A Fitzgerald Medley. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1933.

  13. Fitzgerald, Edward. Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962.


    14. Azar Nafisi (1947- )

  14. Nafizi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. 2003. Random House Trade Paperbacks. New York: Random House, Inc., 2004.


    15. Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207–1273)

  15. Rumi, Jalal al-Din. Tales from the Masnavi. Trans. A. J. Arberry. 1961. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1968.

  16. Rumi, Jalal al-Din. Selected Poems. Trans. Coleman Banks, with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry & Reynold Nicholson. As 'The Essential Rumi', 1995. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2004.


    17. Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, Saadi Shirazi [(1210-1291)

  17. Burton, R. F., trans [Edward Retnisak]. Tales from the Gulistân, or Rose-Garden of the Sheikh Sa’di of Shirâz. 1888. London: Philip Allen, 1928.

  18. Sadi. Gulistan or Flower-Garden. Trans. James Ross. Ed. Charles Sayle. London: Walter Scott, n.d. [c.1890].


    19. Tutinama (c. 14th century)

  19. Rosen, Georg, trans. Tutti-Nameh: Das Papageienbuch. Aus der türkischen Fassung übertragen von Georg Rosen. Stuttgart: Europäischer Buchklub, 1957.


    20. Sa'ad ad-Din Varavini (c. 13th century)

  20. Varâvini, Sa’d al-Dîn. Contes du Prince Marzbân. 1220. Trans. Marie-Hélène Ponroy. Connaissance de l’Orient. Paris: Gallimard, 1992.


    21. Anthologies & Secondary Literature:

  21. Arberry, A. J., ed. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Other Persian Poems: An Anthology of Verse Translations. Everyman’s Library 1996. London & New York: Dent & Dutton, 1954.

  22. Dole, Nathan Haskell, & Belle M. Walker, eds. The Persian Poets. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1901.

  23. Ernst, Paul, ed. Erzählungen aus tausendundein Tag; Vermehrt um andere Morgenländische Geschichten. Trans. Felix Paul Greve and Paul Hansmann. 2 vols. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1987.

  24. Fehse, Willi, ed. The Thousand and One Days. Trans. Anthea Bell. London: Abelard-Schumann, 1971.

  25. Levy, Reuben, trans. The Three Dervishes and other Persian Tales and Legends. Oxford: Humphrey Milford, 1923.

  26. McCarthy, J., trans. The Thousand and One Days: Persian Tales. Vol. 1 of 2. London: Chatto, 1892.

  27. Olcott, Frances Jenkins. Tales of the Persian Genii. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1919.

  28. Pétis de la Croix, ed. The Persian and Turkish Tales, compleat. Trans. Dr. King. Vol. 2 of 2. London: Richard Ware, 1714.

  29. Safâ, Z., ed. Anthologie de la poésie persane: XIe-XXe siècle. Trans. G. Lazard, R. Lescot & H. Massé. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1964.




The Book of Dede Kordut (c.14th-15th Century)


[8 books]


Authors & Works:

  1. Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963)
  2. Orhan Pamuk (1952- )
  3. Anthologies & Secondary Literature


    Nâzım Hikmet Ran (1902–1963)

  1. Hikmet, Nâzım. Poems of Nazim Hikmet: Revised and Expanded. Trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk. 1994. Foreword by Carolyn Forché. A Karen and Michael Braziller Book. New York: Persea Books, 2002.

  2. Hikmet, Nâzım. Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse. Trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk. Foreword by Edward Hirsch. A Karen and Michael Braziller Book. New York: Persea Books, 2002.


    3. Ferit Orhan Pamuk (1952- )

  3. Pamuk, Orhan. The White Castle. 1979. Trans. Victoria Holbrook. 1990. London : Faber, 1991.

  4. Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul: Memories of a City. 2003. Trans. Maureen Freely. 2005. London: Faber, 2006.

  5. Pamuk, Orhan. The Museum of Innocence: A Novel. 2008. Trans. Maureen Freely. 2009. London: Faber, 2010.


    6. Anthologies & Secondary Literature:

  6. de Bellaigue, Christopher. The Lion House: The Coming of a King. The Bodley Head. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2022.

  7. Lewis, Geoffrey, trans. The Book of Dede Korkut. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974.

  8. Menemencioglu, Nermin, in collaboration with Fahir Iz, ed. The Penguin Book of Turkish Verse. Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.

  9. Penzer, N. M. The Harēm: An account of the Institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans with a history of the Grand Seraglio from its foundation to modern times. 1936. London: Bookplan, 1965.



Bihzad: The Well (c.1500)


[20 books]

Categories:
  1. Korean
  2. Singaporean
  3. Tibetan
  4. Vietnamese
  5. Anthologies & Secondary Literature


    Korean:

  1. Kim Man-Choong. The Cloud Dream of the Nine: A Korean Novel – A Story of the Times of the Tangs of China about 840 A.D. Trans. James S. Gale. London: Daniel O’Connor, 1922.

  2. Yi Mun-Yol. The Poet. 1992. Trans. Chung-wha Chung & Brother Anthony of Taizé. London: The Harvill Press, 1995.


    3. Singaporean:

  3. Jee Leong Koh. Seven Studies for a Self Portrait: Poems. Charleston, SC: Bench Press, 2012.

  4. Yap, Arthur. The Space of City Trees: Selected Poems. Introduction by Anne Brewster. Skoob Pacifica. London: Skoob Books Ltd., 2000.


    5. Tibetan:

  5. Evans-Wentz, W. Y. ed. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or The After-Death Experiences of the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering. 1927. 2nd edition. 1949. 3rd edition. 1957. Oxford University Press Paperback. 1960. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.

  6. Lhalungpa, Lobsang P. trans. The Life of Milarepa. 1977. London: Paladin, 1979.

  7. Tshe ring dbang rgyal. The Tale of the Incomparable Prince. 1727. Trans. Beth Newman. The Library of Tibet. New York: HarperPerennial, 1997.


    8. Vietnamese:

  8. Bosley, Keith, ed. The War Wife: Vietnamese Poetry. London: Allison & Busby, 1972.


    9. Anthologies & Secondary Literature:

  9. Haleby, Omar. El Ktab des Lois Secrètes de l’Amour. Trans. Paul de Régla. 1893. Collection Le Nadir. Paris: Balland, 1992.

  10. Mathers, Edward Powys, trans. The Anthology of Eastern Love. Engravings by Hester Sainsbury. 12 vols in 4. London: John Rodker, 1927-30.
    1. Vol. I - The Lessons of a Bawd: English Version of the Kuttanimatam of Dāmodaragupta (1927)
    2. The Harlot’s Breviary: English Version of the Samayamātrikā of Kshemendra (1927)
    3. The Book of Women & Education of Wives: English Versions of the Zenan-Nameh of Fazil-Bey & Ta’dīb ul-Nisvān (1927)
    4. Vol. II - The Young Wives’ Tale & Tales of Fez: English Versions of the Kissat al-‘Arā’is Al-Sabīya of Amor ben Amar & Tales of Fez from the Arabic (1927)
    5. The Loves of Rādhā and Krishna & Amores: English Versions from the Bengali of Chandīdāsa & from the Sanskrit of Amaru and Mayūra (1928)
    6. Love Stories and Gallant Tales from the Chinese: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
    7. Vol. III - Comrade Loves of the Samurai by Saīkaku Ihara & Songs of the Geishas: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
    8. Ninety Short Tales of Love and Women from the Arabic: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
    9. The Loves of Dāsīn and Musag-ag-Amāstān from the Tamashek & Camel-boy Rhythms from the Arabic: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
    10. Vol. IV - Love Tales of Cambodia & Songs of the Love Nights of Lao: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
    11. Anthology of Eastern Love I: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
    12. Anthology of Eastern Love II: English Versions & Terminal Essays by E. Powys Mathers (1930)

  11. Mathers, Edward Powys, trans. Love Songs of Asia. ['Black Marigolds' (1919); from 'Coloured Stars' (1918) & 'The Garden of Bright Waters' (1920)]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

  12. Yohanna, John D., ed. A Treasury of Asian Literature. Readers Union. 1958. London: Phoenix House, 1960.




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