Language: English
Published in: 1889
Translator: Edward FitzGerald
Word count: 11,925 words (≈ about 1 hour)
Source: Project Gutenberg
Copyright: Public Domain
This is the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version of these poems, originally written in the Persian language, is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential.
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