Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold - full unabridged reading 54 minutes playing time download here: http://store.payloadz.com/details/detail_739637.html Read by David Shaw Parker produced by [...]

Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold - full unabridged reading 54 minutes playing time download here:
http://store.payloadz.com/details/detail_739637.html
Read by David Shaw Parker produced by Robert Nichol Audio Productions London
This brief epic was completed in April 1853, after many interruptions. I "think [it is] by far the best thing I have yet done ... but then the story is a very noble and excellent one," remarked Arnold. In Poems by Matthew Arnold: A Second Edition, 1854, Arnold appended both the extract from Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia, which was his general source, and Sainte Beuve's notice (Causeries du lundi, I) of a French translation by Mohl of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic by Ferdousi (940?-1020) to which he acknowledged a certain obligation. Arnold insisted, though, "of M. Mohl's book itself I have not been able to obtain sight."