by Omar Khayyam, Peter Avery, John Heath-Stubbs · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140059540
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«The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam» is the Persian poetry collection translated by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs (Penguin Books, paperback, 128 pp., English).
Omar Khayyam, an 11th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer, left these quatrains reflecting on the transience of life, fate and the pleasure of the moment. The English version by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs includes an introduction, several appendices and reproductions of Persian miniatures.
This Penguin Books edition, a 1984 reprint, reproduces the translation originally published by Allen Lane in 1979.
For readers of classical poetry and Persian literature who appreciate Penguin's illustrated editions.
Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) was a Persian poet and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian literature. He was born in Nishapur, Iran and lived during the Seljuk era, around the time of the First Crusade.
