Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Briggs, A. D. P / Übersetzer: Fitzgerald, Edward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published is reissued in a bicentennial edition with a sumptuous new look.

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780222097
• Artikelnr.: 39273403

Autorenporträt

Omar Khayyam was born in Nishapur around 1048. A true polymath he was known as an astronomer, mathematician, philosopher and poet. Anthony Briggs, Emeritus Professor of Russian at Birmingham University, Senior Research Fellow at Bristol University, is a well-known writer and broadcaster on Russian cultural affairs and European poetry. His recent translation of WAR AND PEACE was critically acclaimed. Among his many publications are six editions in the Everyman poetry series.