The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1

Classic Persian literature which shaped and influenced Greek and Roman literature. The greatest of all Eastern national epics is the work of a Persian. The

"Shah Nameh", or Book of Kings, may take its place most worthily by the

side of the Indian Nala, the Homeric Iliad, the German Niebelungen.