Alamut

Copyright

Translation copyright © 2007 by Michael Biggins. North American Trade Edition © 2007.

English Translation © 2011 North Atlantic Books. Afterword © 2004 Michael Biggins.

© 1988 Editions Phébus, Paris.

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Writing on hand by Forough Farokhzad:

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bartol, Vladimir, 1903–1967.

[Alamut. English]

Alamut / Vladimir Bartol; translated by Michael Biggins.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-1-58394-695-4

1. Hasan ibn al-Sabbah, d. 1124–Fiction. I. Biggins, Michael.

PG1918.B33A7813 2007

891.8′435—dc22

2007022226

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