Omar Khayyam: 31 books

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.  From the Persian astronomer and philosopher Omar Khayyam comes this collection of poems that will take your breath away.  The quatrains are simple and spontaneous yet brimming with beauty.  Not discovered until 1859, they are now some of the best-known and most frequently quoted verses.

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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The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam is a poem of high divine and spiritual meaning. The beauty and simplicity of this poem is so immaculate that people of all faiths and those who have no faith at all can seek divine solace in it. Omar has used popular metaphors in his passionate praise of wine and love....

The Reviewer to whom I owe the Particulars of Omar's Life concludes his Review by comparing him with Lucretius, both as to natural Temper and Genius, and as acted upon by the Circumstances in which he lived. Both indeed were men of subtle, strong, and cultivated Intellect, fine Imagination, and Hearts...

Anthology of classic Persian (Iranian) literature, including The Shah Nameh by Firdusi (translationed by James Atkinson), The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam (translated by Edward Fitzgerald), The Divan by Hafiz (translated by H. Bicknell, and The Gulistan by Sa'di (translated by James Ross). Both volumes in a single file.

Les Principia Discordia sont un recueil de textes sacrés du Discordianisme, écrits par Malaclypse The Younger (Greg Hill) et Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (Kerry Thornley) vers la fin des années 1950. Ils ont été publiés pour la première fois en cinq...

Préférant les jouissances de l'éphémère aux vérités érigées en dogmes, Omar Khayyam était un homme qui regardait le ciel en face. Au lieu de gémir sur le sort de l'humanité, il ne voulut lui souhaiter que l'ivresse et l'amour. Haïssant l'esclavage de la pensée, ce poète, vivant il y...

Omar Khayyám (10481131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet who wrote treatises on topics as diverse as mechanics, geography and music. His significance as a philosopher and teacher, and his few remaining philosophical works, have not received the same attention as his scientific...

The Reviewer to whom I owe the Particulars of Omar's Life concludes his Review by comparing him with Lucretius, both as to natural Temper and Genius, and as acted upon by the Circumstances in which he lived. Both indeed were men of subtle, strong, and cultivated Intellect, fine Imagination, and Hearts...

"We may look upon Omar as a deeply learned man, following his own convictions, who, tortured with the question of existence, and finding no solution to life in Musulman dogmas, worked out for himself a regular conception of life based on Sufistic Mysticism; a man who, without discarding belief,...

This book is truly a work of art, for its simplicity and the beauty of the verses. From the first page to the last, the reader is guided through the life of a man from birth, young manhood, adulthood, middle age, old age, and finally, physical death. An enchanting evening read. I recommend this book...

Selected rubáyát by Omar Khayyam about wine in translated by Richard Le Gallienne. Works of the following artists are used in this publication: Works of the following artists are used in this publication: Mohammad Tajvidi, JLeopold Carl Müller, Charles Landelle, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Rudolf Ernst,...

Illustrated rubáyát by Omar Khayyam in translated by Richard Le Gallienne. Works of the following artists are used in this publication: Mohammad Tajvidi and мedieval oriental miniatures.