The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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Monday, 25 December 1989 - Sunday, 21 February 2010

British Library, 96 Euston Road, Kings Cross, NW1 2DB

Exhibitions: , Museum, History

How Much: Free!
The British Library is celebrating 150 years since the publication of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald.

This translation of an 11th Century Persian poetic text has since been published in over 70 languages.

Until 21.02.10. 
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