Justin Huntly McCarthy fu un autore e politico irlandese. Le sue opere sono caratterizzate da una profonda intuizione della psiche umana e delle questioni sociali. Lo stile di McCarthy è spesso descritto come elegante e penetrante, con un'enfasi sulla rappresentazione dettagliata dei personaggi e dei loro conflitti interiori. La sua scrittura esplora temi di identità, lealtà e le complessità delle relazioni umane, offrendo ai lettori un'esperienza stimolante e coinvolgente.
The book has been preserved and republished in a modern format to ensure its significance is not forgotten. It has been carefully reformatted and retyped, providing a clear and readable text for both present and future generations. This effort highlights the enduring importance of the work throughout human history.
Of the many transactions of Omar'sRubáiyát, none has won such universal approbation as that by Edward FitzGerald, the which is so delicious and captivating that it is known and quoted wherever English is spoken. This edition contains the first, second and fifth versions in full, together with the textual variants in the third and fourth editions, thus providing the reader with a complete rendition of FitzGerald's work on the Rubáiyátover a period of more than twenty-five years.There are, in addition, a general introduction by Laurence Housman, an essay on FitzGerald by G. F. Maine, FitzGerald's essay on Omar, the notes to the second edition, which contains the largest number of quatrains, and a glossary.As examples of other literary works by FitzGerald, this volume also contains the second edition of the first of his books to be printed, Euphranor, A Dialogue of Youth in the Platonic manner, and his translation of the Sufi allegorical work, Saláman and Absál by Jámi.