Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne), credited to Omar Khayyám, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, rendered by Richard Le Gallienne. Read by Algy Pug. Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1897 he published a collection of 211 quatrains, which was based on earlier English translations, in particular the prose version by Justin Huntly McCarthy. A expanded edition, containing fifty additional quatrains was published in 1901, and this has been used for the present recording. (Summary by Algy Pug)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)
• Author credits: Omar Khayyám
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:14:20

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• Persian poetry
• Fitzgerald
• Sufi
• Islam

Track guide

1. 0 - Introduction — 8:33
2. 1 - Quatrains 1 - 90 — 22:38
3. 2 - Quatrains 91 - 180 — 22:38
4. 3 - Quatrains 181 - 261 — 20:31

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