One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald’s translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam…

This volume contains an English rendering in quatrains of the first, second and fifth editions of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, together with notes indicating the minor variants found in the third…

The Rubaiyat is one of the best-known and most-loved works of Persian poetry. This translation by Edward Fitzgerald captures the beauty and passion of Omar Khayyam's original verse, creating a…

Edward FitzGerald’s version of the Rubaiyat of the medieval Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam contains some of the most frequently quoted - and beautiful - lines in English poetry…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable…

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…

This catalog of an unparalleled private collection of Rubaiyat-related books and materials describes more than 7,000 items and includes color illustrations of over 2,000 book covers. Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of…

Plays that include Eugene O'Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! and phrases such as The Moving Finger are inspired by The Rubaiyat. As did Shakespeare’s lines, so do Khayyam’s exquisite expressions, that are…