SADI: THE ROSE GARDEN

Translated by Edward Rehatsek

The ROSE GARDEN of Sadi has been called the most famous work in Persian Literature. It is more quoted than any other outside of the Koran itself. It is a collection of one hundred and eighty eight short stories in prose mingled with verse. In many parts of the East a person is not considered knowledgeable who does not know by heart much of what Sadi has written. Sadi is wise and witty, moral and ribald and sarcastic; his poems abound in practical wisdom and spirituality.

Edward Rehatsek’s translation is the only complete, unexpurgated version in English. W.G. Archer says of it: "When we bear in mind his quite exceptional knowledge of both English and Persian, it is difficult to envisage a better person as translator".

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