The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton\'s unforgettable love song Layla and that Lord Byron called the Romeo and Juliet of the East, in a masterly new translation A Penguin Classic The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and.
The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton\'s unforgettable love song Layla and that Lord Byron called the Romeo and Juliet of the East, in a masterly new translation A Penguin Classic The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and
