Here in one volume are the collected chief works of the Victorian writer and poet, Edward FitzGerald, complete with original notes, prefaces, glossary and appendix. For the great majority of English readers, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam means only these particular translations, the first, second and fifth editions done so divinely well by FitzGerald, when the Victorian Age of Empire was at its height. Here also is his less well-known translation of the mystical Sufi allegory, Salaman and Absal, by the Persian scholar and poet, Jami, as well as FitzGerald's biographies of both Omar Khayyam and...

AEsop was probably a real person; although it is impossible to be sure which of the surviving stories were really his. The date given him by Herodotus is about 570 b.c., and there is nothing to make this date improbable. Other ancient sources include Aristotle and Plutarch, who has him dining with the Seven Sages of Greece and sitting beside his friend Solon, whom he had met in Sardis. The earliest known writings appear from the first century a.d. Later, stories of this kind, especially animal stories, were all ascribed to AEsop, and the Greek collection which goes under his name contains...

Cette compilation est avant tout une biographie de G.G. Leibnitz ecrite par M.L. de Neufville en 1734, et sert d'introduction a l' uvre de G.G. Leibnitz: Les Essais de Theodicee sur la Bonte de Dieu, la Liberte de l'Homme, et l'Origine du Mal, en cours de preparation. Publier cette version en Francais du debut du 18eme siecle, apres quelque changements typographiques, nous a semble d'un interet supplementaire."