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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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LibriVox recording of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám. Read by Amy Gramour(S) The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubáiyát" (derived from the Arabic root word for "four"), meaning "quatrains". (Introduction by Wikipedia) The three translations by women comprise this collection of recordings of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. (Note by Amy Gramour) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B audio book (51mb)

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Omar Khayyám

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librivox; audiobooks; poetry; quatrains; Persian; Jessie Cadell; Jessie B. Rittenhouse; Elizabeth Alden Curtis; translations

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