Story collection · The work and its editions
Chahar Fasl-e Irani · Chahār faṣl-i Īrānī · The Iranian Four Seasons
English parallel cover title recorded by Harvard for the Persian collection.
Original language: Persian
A Persian short-story collection with a long route to publication. Rabihavi recalls that permission was refused and only a few stories appeared in periodicals. Harvard records a first-edition-labelled Nidā book in 1374, with an uncertain London imprint and the English cover title Iranian Four Seasons. A later Italian book shares the title; its contents relationship has not been established.
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A chapter in the biography · A chapter in the biography · A chapter in the biographyRabihavi describes refused publication permission and a few stories appearing in periodicals. Individual periodical appearances are separate records.
The Persian Nidā collection in Harvard’s catalogue.
A Pendaar paperback identified by Library Hub with ISBN 9781912647071; the retained language and individual translation fields are absent.
A Persian Goethe & Hafis edition in Libris and the full DNB record, which includes a twenty-story subtitle. The contents relationship to the earlier Nidā book remains unverified.
English parallel cover title; this collection is in Persian.
Harvard transcribes Chāp-i 1., an uncertain publication place and nine contents entries. The date range and bracketed place are retained; no exact Gregorian year, ISBN or complete reading is inferred.
Latin-script title in the library catalogue; text language not established.
Library Hub identifies this printed paperback with a distinct ISBN and London 2019 imprint. One holding credits “various translators” and another labels a new edition; neither gives the text language, individual translator names or contents. The actual volume has not been inspected. This catalogue publication is not identified as an English translation or merged with the undated Persian Pendaar listing.
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
Libris and the full DNB record identify a Persian first edition for this imprint. The German subtitle is Zwanzig Kurzgeschichten, meaning twenty short stories. That title field does not supply a checked contents list or establish the relationship to the earlier nine-entry Nidā edition.
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
Pendaar explicitly describes its Persian book as a story collection. The publisher listing gives no year, ISBN or edition statement. Its listed extent does not establish identical contents with another imprint or validate a separately reported retail SKU.
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
Naakojaa names Pendaar and states second printing in 2024, but labels the item a play where the publisher describes its collection as short stories. No inspected contents or colophon resolves that discrepancy. The retail SKU 9781912647163 is not a verified ISBN. This dated listing is separate from the publisher’s undated collection; physical and textual identity remains unestablished.
London · Pendaar · 2019 catalogue record
Library Hub’s retained institutional catalogue results record a printed paperback, Iranian Four Seasons, Pendaar, London, 2019, ISBN 9781912647071. One record credits “various translators”; a separate holding calls it a new edition. This publication now has its own qualified catalogue entry alongside the other named printings.
The retained extract does not state the book’s text language, name those translators or list its contents. Its English catalogue title does not establish an English translation, and its distinct ISBN does not prove the relationship to Pendaar’s undated Persian collection. The physical imprint and complete contents would resolve those questions.
Pendaar · a retail printing statement
Naakojaa’s retained product page describes a Pendaar second printing in 2024 and displays SKU 9781912647163. The retailer’s statement is useful publication context beside Pendaar’s own undated catalogue entry.
A product SKU is kept as a product field. Without the actual imprint, ISBN statement and complete contents, this listing does not identify a verified separate edition or settle its relationship with the Nidā and Goethe & Hafis collections.
Nidā · 1374 [1995 or 1996]
Harvard records the following contents for the Persian Nidā collection. The titles keep the library’s Latin transliteration and sequence; they are catalogue labels, rather than new English translations.
Musicaos · Italian · 2024
Musicaos names these stories in its description of Le quattro stagioni iraniane. This is a publisher-named selection, in the order of that description, rather than a checked complete contents page.
Benedetta Pati is credited with editing and translation from English. The publisher does not identify a particular English source collection or the Persian source edition. The Italian book therefore keeps its own publication record beside the earlier collection.
Goethe & Hafis · Persian · 2023
The German National Library’s full record identifies a Persian first edition from Goethe & Hafis in Bonn, dated 2023, ISBN 9783949715310. Its German parallel title carries the subtitle Zwanzig Kurzgeschichten: twenty short stories.
A subtitle and a contents page provide different kinds of evidence. The record supplies the former, while Harvard supplies nine actual contents entries for the earlier Nidā book. The two editions remain distinct until their volumes can be compared.
Pendaar · Persian
Pendaar explicitly labels its Persian Iranian Four Seasons a story collection. The publisher’s catalogue names Rabihavi and shows the book, but supplies no publication year, ISBN or edition statement.
That record settles the form used by this publisher. It does not date the printing, establish its complete contents or identify a separately reported retail product as the same edition.
Library catalogue · The retained institutional results identify printed resources: Iranian Four Seasons, Pendaar, London, 2019, ISBN 9781912647071, paperback, with “various translators” in one record and a new-edition label in another; Boys of Love, Pendaar, London, 2019, ISBN 9781912647026, paperback. The extract gives no text-language field or individual translator names. These named catalogue publications are not conflated with undated Persian publisher entries or identified as English translations. Capture: 14 September 2026. Four originating detail links were inaccessible on 4 October 2026; current loan and purchase availability are not asserted.
Retailer · The retained product description names Pendaar and a second printing in 2024, with SKU 9781912647163. The SKU is not promoted to a verified ISBN, and the description does not establish an inspected imprint or identical contents with another edition. Capture: 14 September 2026.
Author interview · Page dated 15 February 2011. Author replies identify Memoirs as a story collection and discuss licences for Gisu, From This Place, Maryam and Iranian Four Seasons. The introductory chronology contains an apparent error.
Library catalogue · Persian short stories, first-edition label, Nidā, [London?], 1374 [1995 or 1996]. The English parallel cover title and nine contents entries are recorded. Neither a precise Gregorian year nor certain publication place is inferred.
Publisher · Italian 2024 book, edited and translated from English by Benedetta Pati, ISBN 9791280202697; distribution from 10 May. The publisher describes its stories but does not identify the Nidā edition as its source or establish identical contents.
Library catalogue · The retained original MODS and JSON responses contain real edition fields: Afsane’s Persian Maryam, Gardoun and Pendaar Boys, and the 2023 Persian Four Seasons. Dates, first/second-edition labels and language codes are retained as catalogue evidence; they do not establish complete contents equivalence or German translations.
Library catalogue · Exact MARC record 1284320383 identifies a Persian first edition, Goethe & Hafis, Bonn, 2023, ISBN 9783949715310. The German subtitle reads Zwanzig Kurzgeschichten. That twenty-story subtitle is a recorded title field; the actual contents are not supplied in the response.
Publisher · The publisher lists Persian-language books by Rabihavi: Gisu, Maryam’s Smile, A Ballad of Love and Iranian Four Seasons. It explicitly describes the latter two as story collections. No publication year, edition number or ISBN accompanies these four listings, so none is inferred. Its Boys of Love listing is not counted as an additional printing.