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audible1 recording of Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, by Justin Huntly McCarthy.
Read by Algy Pug.
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 Khayyam 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)
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