List $13.98

Written by Edward Fitzgerald (translator), Rumi, Sa'di, Hafiz, Jami, Baligh, Faiz, Iqbal, Sen, Rabindranath Tagore, Byron & Thomas Moore - Audio book performed by Madhav Sharma, David Timson, Philip Madoc, Polly Hayes, Daniel Philpott with classical music - Unabridged Selections - Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 2.5 hours

Publisher, Naxos AudioBooks (July 1998)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward Fitzgerald, remains one of the most popular poems. It expressed the fascination of Victorian England with the Orient. Here, it forms the main work on the first cassette, along with other shorter poems by other leading Persian and Indian figures, including Rumi, Sa'di and Rabindranath Tagore. The second cassette is devoted to works written by Western poets on the theme of the East with The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, an excerpt from Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh - one of the best-sellers of the early 19th century.