Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam H/C
Author(s): Omar Khayyam
Edward FitzGerald's much-loved, often-quoted, best-selling 1859 translation of the Rubaiyat (650 editions in 150 years), with Attar's charming narrative poem, Bird Parliament. Extensive new introduction with notes and chronology.
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'an attractive new edition with a lengthy essay by Tony Briggs, who characterises the poem, memorably, as "the story of the apocalypse told to us by a kind uncle"' DAILY MAIL "a lovely new edition... Professor Briggs does us all a favour by putting before our red and weary eyes FitzGerald and this legacy from an older Iran." -- Libby Purves TIMES
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.24
- : 01 March 2009
- : 198mm X 129mm X 14mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 160
- : 1
- : Hardback
- : Omar Khayyam
