The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 6 original MP3 tracks, 2:21:22 running time and a link to listen.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 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 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyám and translated by Edward FitzGerald. Read by Algy Pug. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) is the title that Edward Fitz-Gerald 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 hemis-techs) per line, hence the word "Rubáiyát" (derived from the Arabic root word for "four"), meaning "quatrains".
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Author credits: Omar Khayyám
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 6
- Listed recording duration: 2:21:22
Catalogue topics
- poetry
- quatrains
- Persia
Track guide
- 1 - First edition - 1859 — 18:00
- 2 - Second Edition - 1868 — 26:08
- 3 - Third edition - 1872 — 22:49
- 4 - Fourth edition - 1879 — 23:02
- 5 - Fifth Edition - 1889 — 23:04
- 6 - Introduction to the Third Edition - 1872 — 28:19
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