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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : Translated Into English Verse by. Edward Fitzgerald

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Author: Edward Fitzgerald
Number of Pages: 126 pages
Published Date: 14 Sep 2014
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9781502377661
File Name: Rubaiyat.of.Omar.Khayyam.Translated.Into.English.Verse.by.pdf
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Of special note in this still youthful age of self-published books (digital ebooks as well as books 'Printed-on-Demand'), is the truly astonishing fact that the Rubaiyat was a self-published book, and not only self-published, but anonymously so by its translator, Edward FitzGerald! It was also a financial flop, with the unsold copies remaindered to the penny box in one small bookstore. Were it not for Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne, two famous Victorian authors, happening quite by chance to see a pamphlet advertising second-hand books, and being curious about one titled Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, Translated into English Verse (no translator named), the entire batch was destined to be reborn as waste paper. This CreateSpace/Kindle edition of the Rubaiyat, edited and with a Preface by H.D. Greaves, is unique in that it contains all the FitzGerald editions: the First, the Second, and the Fifth, as well as FitzGerald's extensive variations in his Third and Fourth Editions. You will also find here FitzGerald's Notes to the Second Edition, his Introduction to the Third Edition, his essay on Omar Khayyam, and a complete Glossary. Although FitzGerald's translation is not literal (he called it a "transmogrification" from the Persian), it is by far the greatest English language version of these extraordinary quatrains. This inexpensive CreateSpace paperback and its Kindle ebook companion contain no illustrations. As lovely-and as beloved-as many of those are, it may be wise to consider that Omar Khayyam's immortal words ultimately need no artist's palette. Our imagination and discernment are more than enough to give them life."

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