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Rubaiyat
The Great Omar that sank on the Titanic and burned in the Blitz
2023 || Hardcover || Omar Khayyam || Willem v.d. Berg
Colophon
Author: Omar Khayyam
Translator: Edward FitzGerald
Illustrator: Elihu Vedder
Commissioner: John Stonehouse
Cover design: Francis Sangorski
Desktop publishing: Willem v.d. Berg
Printing: Pumbo B.V.
The history of this book and the tragic story behind it are not less important than its contents.
Omar Khayyam was famous during his lifetime in the 12th century not as a poet but as an astronomer and mathematician.
Although the authenticity of all the poetry attributed to Omar Kh...
Brave New World
2023 || Hardcover || Aldous Huxley || Willem v.d. Berg
In the distant future the World Controllers have created the ideal society.
Human beings, graded from intellectuals to manual workers, hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries, learn by conditioning to accept their social destiny.
By means of clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all members of this society are happy consumers.
Bernard Marx seems to be the only individual that harbours an ill-defined longing to break free from this ...
Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat in Color
Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat completely illustrated in color by Elihu Vedder
2023 || Hardcover || Omar Khayyam || Willem v.d. Berg
Colophon
Author: Omar Khayyam
Translator: Edward FitzGerald
Illustrator: Elihu Vedder
Cover design: Elihu Vedder
Desktop publishing: Willem v.d. Berg
Printing: Pumbo B.V.
Omar Khayyam was famous during his lifetime in the 12th century not as a poet but as an astronomer and mathematician.
Although the authenticity of all the poetry attributed to Omar Khayyam is not completely certain, Edward FitzGerald published in 1859 the English translation of 75 quatrains which with certainty belong...