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...

This is the original, first edition of the author's famous novel, that influenced generations of twentieth century authors and novelists and one of the most popular novels ever written, that marked a radical change in English literature.

The most famous and controversial novel of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century in which awe and exhilaration along with heartbreak and mordant wit abound on the background of the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and ...

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 ...

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...