The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 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

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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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
• Author credits: Omar Khayyám
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:49:56

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• quatrains
• Persian
• Jessie Cadell
• Jessie B. Rittenhouse
• Elizabeth Alden Curtis
• translations

Track guide

1. 0-Preface of the Cadell Translation — 28:40
2. 1-Cadell Translation:The Ruba'yat of Omar Khayam — 36:43
3. 2-Rittenhouse Translation: The Lover's Rubaiyat — 17:48
4. 3-Curtis Translation:One Hundred Quatrains from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — 26:45

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