Quatrains of Omar Khayyám in English Prose

Omar Khayyám (1048 - 1131)

Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 - 1936) was an Irish scholar, author and nationalist politician. In 1889 his prose translations of 466 quatrains of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was published by David Nutt. An abbreviated edition, containing a shorter introduction and translations of 373 quatrains, was published by David Nutt in 1898, and this has been used for the present recording. (Summary by Algy Pug)

Genre(s): Literary Collections

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Section 0 - Dedication & Introduction Algy Pug
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Play 01 Section 1 Algy Pug
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Play 02 Section 2 Algy Pug
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Play 03 Section 3 Algy Pug
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Play 04 Section 4 Algy Pug
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Play 05 Section 5 Algy Pug
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Play 06 Section 6 Algy Pug
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Play 07 Section 7 - The Grave of Omar Khayyam Algy Pug
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