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Omar Khayyam: A Life
by Lamb, Harold
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. Early reprint. Tape on jacket flaps with associated surface tears to front endpaper, jacket trimmed short at edges and reinforced with tape along edges. 1936 Hard Cover. 316, [3] pp. Black cloth, gilt titles and decorations on spine. A biography of Omar Khayyam, the Persian poet made famous by his Rubaiyat. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous 'Omar Khayyam clubs' were formed and there was a 'fin de siecle cult of the Rubaiyat.' FitzGerald's work has been published in several hundred editions and has inspired similar translation efforts in English, Hindi and in many other languages.
Reviews
On Oct 5 2021, a reader said:
The author did an exceptional job of putting the reader in the time and place of this fictional biography. He captures the people, the fanaticism and the color of the culture; the Muslim Middle East of a thousand years ago. It comes back to life in the spotlights and conflicts of today.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2331913
- Title
- Omar Khayyam: A Life
- Author
- Lamb, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- 9x6x1
- Weight
- 1.25 lbs
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY OMAR KHAYYAM PERSIAN POET LITERARY
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Yesterday's Muse Inc. is an independent used & rare bookseller that has been in operation for over 15 years. We opened our first 'brick and mortar' storefront in December of 2008 in our hometown of Webster, NY.Owner Jonathan Smalter is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), former vice president of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), both of which are trade organizations created to promote ethical online selling practices, and to encourage continuing education among fellow booksellers. He is also a 2011 graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS). He has nearly 20 years of experience in the book trade, during which time he has become adept at evaluating used and collectible books.
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- Gilt
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