The Blind Owl
 Considered one of the most important works of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpice details a young [... more]
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The Blind Owl
Surreal, not so real . . .: Readers have compared this classic modern Persian novel to the works of Poe's fevered imagination. Its hero is delusional, obsessed, and maybe totally mad. The narrative is dream-like in structure, which is to say layered, [... more]
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Sadeq Hedayat: The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer
DIVSadeq Hedayat is the most famous and enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. He was born in 1903 and lived a troubled life which ended in 1951 with his suicide in Paris. His most celebrated novel,iThe Blind Owl/i, has made an impact far beyond [... more]
$36.18
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Three Drops of Blood
DIVThis collection of short stories, previously unpublished in English, displays the disturbing and evocative force of Hedayat's writing, and confirms his place in the literary canon. They depict a world of revelation, uncanny similarity, grotesquery, [... more]
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Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: ...
Over the past decade Iranian films have received enormous international attention, garnering both critical praise and popular success. Combining his extensive ethnographic experience in Iran and his broad command of critical theory, Michael M. J. Fischer [... more]
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Blind Owl [live] (Album Version)
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Best of Canned Heat EMI | AEC One Stop
This ten-track set contains essential sides from the classic rock blues and boogie combo Canned Heat, culled from their first four long-players: Canned Heat 1967, Boogie With Canned Heat 1968, Living the Blues [Akarma ] 1968, and Hallelujah 1969. Notably, [... more]
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The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu
A work in progress that needs to be more scholarly: This is self-described as an anecdotal dictionary of the blues, but it suffers some serious flaws and while there is some useful information, it is far from authoritative or comprehensive and while it [... more]
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Sadeq Hedayat: The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer
Book Description: Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. He was born in 1903 and lived a troubled life which ended in 1951 with his suicide in Paris. His most celebrated novel, The Blind Owl, has made an impact [... more]
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Vathek: An Arabian Tale
Beckford's Soulscape?: The tale of Vathek is undeniably a wonderful oriental fable, where enlightenment ethics are presented and critiqued. If read in conjunction with Samuel Johnson "Rasselas", Montesquieu's Persian Letters and "Arabian [... more]
$16.98
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Vathek (Oxford World's Classics)
Beckford's Soulscape?: The tale of Vathek is undeniably a wonderful oriental fable, where enlightenment ethics are presented and critiqued. If read in conjunction with Samuel Johnson "Rasselas", Montesquieu's Persian Letters and "Arabian [... more]
$11.95
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Vathek: An Arabian Tale
Beckford's Soulscape?: The tale of Vathek is undeniably a wonderful oriental fable, where enlightenment ethics are presented and critiqued. If read in conjunction with Samuel Johnson "Rasselas", Montesquieu's Persian Letters and "Arabian [... more]
$14.99
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