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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald; with illustrations by Edmund Dulac is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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xii, 189 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : 21 cm Omar Khayyám was an eleventh-century Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer. Renowned in his own time for his scientific achievements, his fame was reborn in the nineteenth century when Edward Fitzgerald published a translation of his rubáiyát (quatrains in a style popular among Persian intellectuals of his day). Fitzgerald's first translation was first published anonymously in 1859. (His revised editions were published in 1868, 1872, and 1879). FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is perhaps the most frequently read Victorian poem of all time
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- Author
- rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald; with illustrations by Edmund Dulac
- Publisher
- New York: Quality Paperback Book Club
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Poetry
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (27 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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