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UNIVERSAL CLASSICS
LIBRARY

ILLUSTRATED
WITH PHOTOGRAVURES ON
JAPAN VELLUM, ETCHINGS
HAND PAINTED INDIA-PLATE
REPRODUCTIONS, AND
FULL PAGE PORTRAITS
OF AUTHORS.

M WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER
NEW YORK & LONDON

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Copyright, 1903,
BY
M. WALTER DUNNE;
PUBLISHER

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THE TOMB OF OMAR
From an old painting by an unknown artist

THE SUFISTIC QUATRAINS OF
OMAR KHAYYAM

IN DEFINITIVE FORM
INCLUDING THE TRANSLATIONS OF

EDWARD FITZGERALD
(101 quatrains)
With Edward Heron-Allen's Analysis

E.H. WHINFIELD
(500 quatrains)

J.B. NICOLAS
(464 quatrains)

WITH PREFACES BY EACH TRANSLATOR AND A
GENERAL INTRODUCTION DEALING WITH
OMAR'S PLACE IN SUFISM, BY

ROBERT ARNOT, M.A.
Author of "The Vine in Symbolism"

M. WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER,
NEW YORK & LONDON

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Copyright, 1903,
BY
M. WALTER DUNNE,
PUBLISHER

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