- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix; 1 edition (Mar 5 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 075382678X
- ISBN-13: 978-0753826782
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 259 g
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#108,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #18 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Classics > Medieval
- #26 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Middle Eastern
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'an attractive new edition with a lengthy essay by Tony Briggs, who characterises the poem, memorably, as "the story of the apocalypse told to us by a kind uncle"' DAILY MAIL "a lovely new edition... Professor Briggs does us all a favour by putting before our red and weary eyes FitzGerald and this legacy from an older Iran." -- Libby Purves TIMES
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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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1.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Beware the incompetent typesetting, Sep 28 2010
By Carter B. Holmes - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Omar Khayyam: Everyman Poetry (Hardcover)
This otherwise lovely edition is marred by incompetent typesetting, where the typesetter has messed up the line-spacing, causing half of the Rubaiyat to be split across pages, which for me makes them unreadable. This is such an elementary mistake it takes the breath away. After the typesetter made that mistake, presumably an editor at some level approved it.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Not a real Everyman!, April 2 2010
By David J. Delaurant - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Omar Khayyam: Everyman Poetry (Hardcover)
The edition shown is basically a reinforced paperback, and my rating reflects Amazon's mistaken identification of this as an Everyman poetry edition -- wrong publisher folks! Do not be misled into thinking this is one of the superior Knopf/Random House Everyman's Library editions.The lesson here is that if you want a _real_ Everyman edition of a popular title, first check the catalog at [...], search Amazon using the correct ISBN and only then place your order. Caveat emptor.
Unfortunately, Khayyam isn't directly listed in the everyman catalog; it is included in the Pocket Poets series within Persian Poets, ISBN 0375411267
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