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Layla and Majnun
Fuzuli's great poem of longing, rendered into English verse by Tay Sagon.
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A Forbidden Love
Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil's social and psychological classic, rendered into English by Emma Celine Veyre.
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Private desire, public consequence.
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