Nezami Ganjavi

Layli and Majnun is the Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song "Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East," presented here in a masterly new translation. A Penguin Classic This iconic love story of the Middle East, written by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety,...