Rubaiyat - Softcover
This is the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version of these poems, originally written in the Persian language, is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential.
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'I found Robert Wilson's 'Omar Khayyam' very readable. It will stand well in print in Scotland' EDWIN MORGAN The Rubaiyat of Omar... takes on a contemporary gloss in a rumbustious reworking in Scots of the literal text of the Persian poet. THE HERALD --The Herald
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John Heath-Stubbs was born in London and educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He was known for writing verse influenced by the classics and was awarded an OBE in 1988.
Peter Avery OBE is an eminent British scholar of Persian studies and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
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- PublisherIBEX Publishers,U.S.
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0936347600
- ISBN 13 9780936347608
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages104
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
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(1999)
ISBN 10: 0936347600
ISBN 13: 9780936347608
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st thus "a". 4to cream cloth in a floral pictorial dustjacket. Floral design endpapers. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Dulac throughout in color. Unpaginated, about 100pp. Book is fine with neat gift inscription of former owner on free flyleaf in red ink. In a near-fine dust jacket; bright covers, minute red dot & closed short Attractive. 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0. Seller Inventory # EM76
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