The Ghazals of Saadi: Volume 1 of 2 — Persian with English translation (EPUB + PDF) Price: 5.00 USD

The first of two volumes presenting the complete ghazals of Saadi of Shiraz in a bilingual, line-by-line edition. This volume holds ghazals 1 to 318, the poems whose rhymes run from the letter Alef to the letter Sin, 318 poems in 3,095 couplets.

Each Persian couplet appears in the original, followed immediately by its English translation, so a reader of either language can follow the verse in the other. The Persian is set in a clear modern typeface and reads right to left as it should; the English is plain and faithful rather than ornamental, keeping Saadi's images and turns of thought in his own order.

Saadi's ghazals are love poems of great clarity and music, with none of the obscurity of the mystics; Persians say he made the language itself, and his lines have become its proverbs. The volume opens with a short preface on the poet and on this bilingual method, and a contents list of every ghazal by number and first line.

Translated by Yahya Nazer, whose bilingual editions of Rumi, Saadi, Hafez, Attar, Khayyam and Ferdowsi number more than sixty volumes.

You receive the book in two formats: EPUB (Apple Books, Thorium, any e-reader app) and PDF (opens anywhere).