 FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States.By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous "Omar Khayyam clubs" were formed and there was a "fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat".FitzGerald's work has been published in several hundred editions, and has inspired similar translation efforts in English and in many other languages.