Author: Omar Khayyam
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, khayyam, omar, iyat, ruba
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1981-12-17
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 0140443843
ISBN-13: 9780140443844

Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his "Ruba’iyat". The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and doubts with wit and clarity, and Khayyam became one of its most accomplished masters with his touching meditations on the transience of human life and of the natural world. One of the supreme achievements of medieval literature, the reckless romanticism and the pragmatic fatalism in the face of death means these verses continue to hold the

Authors:Edward Fitzgerald, Omar Khayyam,
Publisher: FQ Classics
Keywords: khayyam, omar, rubaiyat
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2007-05-18
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1599868458
ISBN-13: 9781599868455

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a collection of poems authored by Persian astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam. The poems in this title are written into quatrains, Rubaiyat being arabic for root of four, as in four line verses of which quatrains are made up of. This popular edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the edition by Edward Fitzgerald, who translated this work in the late 19th century.

Author: Omar Khayyam
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: khayyam, omar, rubaiyat
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1420925776
ISBN-13: 9781420925777

Omar Khayyam was a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in the later part of the 11th century. His poetry, which received very little notoriety in its day, achieved classic status when it was discovered and rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald over seven hundred years later. Presented here are the traditionally collected first and fifth editions with the original notes and introduction by Edward Fitzgerald.

Author: Everett Douglas
Publisher: Paramount
Keywords: vhs, khayyam, omar
Published:
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 6302491878
ISBN-13: 9786302491876

Author: Paramhansa Yogananda
Publisher: Crystal Clarity Publishers
Keywords: khayyam, omar, rubaiyat
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2008-07-25
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1565892275
ISBN-13: 9781565892279

Now after eight centuries, Paramhansa Yogananda, one of the great mystics of our times, a master of yoga and the author of the now-classic Autobiography of a Yogi, explains the mystery behind Omar’s famous mystical poem. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained is available at last, edited by one of Yogananda’s close disciples, J. Donald Walters. This new & expanded version is now available in paperback.

Authors:William Mason, Sandra Martin,
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: fitzgerald, rubaiyat, illustrating, khayyam, omar, art
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 1845112822
ISBN-13: 9781845112820

This book describes a phenomenon unique in publishing history -- a book of poetry, published anonymously nearly 150 years ago -- purporting to be the translation of an 11th century Persian work -- which has remained almost continuously in print and stimulated at least 130 illustrators attempting to illuminate the verses it contains. The poetry in question is Edward FitzGerald’s version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Khayyam was a mathematician, astronomer and philosopher in 11th century Persia. Edward FitzGerald was first introduced to Khayyam’s verses in the original Persian in

Author: Edward FitzGerald
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: editions, dover, thrift, fifth, first, omar, khayyã¡m, rubã¡yã¡t
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1990-07-01
List price: $1.50
ISBN-10: 048626467X
ISBN-13: 9780486264677

One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald’s free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048—1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. Fifth edition incorporates FitzGerald’s handwritten changes in the fourth edition, and is traditionally printed with the first edition. Notes explaining Persian names and unfamiliar terms.