The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

``A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse -- and Thou, Beside me, singing in the Wilderness, `` is only one of the memorable verses from Edward FitzGerald...

Reducere. This is the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version of ...

In July 1856, Professor Edward Cowell sent his friend Edward Fitzgerald a Persian-language copy of poems by Omar Khayyam, the 12th century Persian ...

Reducere. This illuminating work unveils the hidden meaning of a much-admired but long-misunderstood spiritual masterpiece. Yogananda's uniquely clarifying c...

Reducere. In this text, Yogananda re-interprets the spiritual message of the beloved Rubaiyat.

DescriptionA repository of subversive, melancholic and existentialist themes and ideas, the rubaiyat (quatrains) that make up the collected poems a...