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Date: 1936-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: Persian
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بوف کور?Buf-i kur
Title Record # 1906631
Author:
صادق هدایت?Sadegh Hedayat
Date: 1936-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: Persian
Note: The first edition is usually referred to as "the Bombay edition", and appears to have had no official publisher. It was "handwritten by Hedayat and largely unavailable until M. F. Farzaneh's reprint in 1994" – Naveed Noori, translator of the Bombay edition, in his introduction to the 1st ebook edition, 2011.
Approx. 40,000 words, although the word count of the original Persian is unknown and different translations may vary.
Synopsis: An opium addict spirals into madness after losing a mysterious lover.
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| The Blind Owl | 1989-11-00 | Sadegh Hedayat | Evergreen Black Cat / Grove Press | B-205 | $1.95?$: US dollar |
130 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
chap | ||
| The Blind Owl | 2008-07-01 | Sadegh Hedayat | ONEWorld (Oneworld Classics) | 978-1-84749-069-8 | 108 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
chap | |||
| The Blind Owl | 2011-10-00 | Sadegh Hedayat | Editorial l'Aleph / Iran Open Publishing Group | 978-91-86131-44-9 |
xxvii+ 78 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
chap | Lynn Hatzius |  |
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| Blind Owl | 2022-04-12 | Sadeq Hedayat | Penguin Books (Penguin Classics) | £5.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
chap | Leonardo Santamaria | |||
| Blind Owl | 2022-10-06 | Sadeq Hedayat | Penguin Books (Penguin Classics) | 978-0-14-313658-3 | $14.00?$: US dollar |
xvii+ 87 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
chap | Leonardo Santamaria | |
Reviews
- Review [English] by Robert Irwin (2005) in Horror: Another 100 Best Books
- Review [English] by Peter Young (2015) in Big Sky, #5: Hotel Catatonia
- Review [English] by Amir-Hussein Radjy (2022) in The New York Times Book Review, May 8, 2022