Today's Rubaiyat: the Best Of |
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| Author:
| Torney, Austin |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4921-1210-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $8.95 |
Book Description:
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6x9 fully grayscale-illustrated.This work contains my favorite rubaiyat, illustrated with art from DAZ3D. Theses are new quatrains, not translations of Omar Khayyàm's Rubàiyàt.As for Omar, he has indeed achieved immortality, since his spirit and words yet resist death by living on in our writings and readings. Thus inspired, I have endeavored to capture Omar's spirit, for more modern times, to create these new quatrains, although I have surely been influenced by Edward FitzGerald's...
More Description6x9 fully grayscale-illustrated.This work contains my favorite rubaiyat, illustrated with art from DAZ3D. Theses are new quatrains, not translations of Omar Khayyàm's Rubàiyàt.As for Omar, he has indeed achieved immortality, since his spirit and words yet resist death by living on in our writings and readings. Thus inspired, I have endeavored to capture Omar's spirit, for more modern times, to create these new quatrains, although I have surely been influenced by Edward FitzGerald's translated gems.There is also a prose version, 'The Triumph of Life, Love, and Being', in which a loving couple takes a long, picaresque journey through the countryside to explore the joys and follies of the human condition.