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The Rubaicon

The Rubaicon

The Rubaicon

Steven Parris Ward

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Xlibris UK
Año de edición:
2012
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781479762590
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The Rubaicon is a poetic parody drama detailing the imaginary life of Omar Khayyam’s misspent youth.Transformed from a wine drinking galavant into a pig, and back again, his pursuit of pleasure, its perils and problems, helps him to realise the nature of the good life. There be nought so strange as fiction... save the dream of real life.

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