Henley-on-Thames
£9.99
This is 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’. The book features an extensive new introduction with notes and chronology.
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Publish Date: 12/06/2014The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published, brought up to date with a sumptuous new look.
Edward FitzGerald’s much-loved, often-quoted, bestselling 1859 translation of the RUBAIYAT, with Attar’s charming narrative poem, BIRD PARLIAMENT. Also featuring an extensive new introduction with notes and chronology.
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that put the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light.
| Weight | 150 g |
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| Dimensions | 214 × 128 × 16 mm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | lxxv, 84 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Bicentennial edition |
| Dewey | 891.5511 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
