The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran

<p>Khalil Gibran (also known as Kahlil Gibran; born Gibran Khalil Gibran) was born January 6 1883 and died April 10 1931. And was an artist poet and writer. He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his productive life in the United States.<br><br>To many he is a genius whose philosophical and prophetic style convey important messages about life and humanity in a simple yet beautifully eloquent manner that are as fresh and meaningful in today's world as when they were first written.</p> Poet artist and mystic Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece <i>The Prophet</i> a book of poetic essays written in his youth has sold over eight million copies in more than twenty languages since its first publication in 1923. But all Gibran's works - essays stories parables prose poems - are imbued with equally powerful simplicity and wisdom whether meditating upon love marriage friendship work pleasure time or grief. Perhaps no other twentieth-century writer has touched the hearts and minds of so remarkably varied and widespread a readership.Included in this volume are <i>The Madman</i> <i>The Forerunner</i> <i>The Prophet</i> <i>Sand and Foam</i> <i>Jesus the Son of Man</i> <i>Earth Gods</i> <i>The Wanderer</i> <i>The Garden of the Prophet</i> <i>Prose Poems</i> <i>Spirits Rebellious</i> <i>Nymphs of the Valley</i> and <i>A Tear and a Smile</i>. Poet artist and mystic Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece <i>The Prophet</i> a book of poetic essays written in his youth has sold over eight million copies in more than twenty languages since its first publication in 1923. But all Gibran's works - essays stories parables prose poems - are imbued with equally powerful simplicity and wisdom whether meditating upon love marriage friendship work pleasure time or grief. Perhaps no other twentieth-century writer has touched the hearts and minds of so remarkably varied and widespread a readership.Included in this volume are <i>The Madman</i> <i>The Forerunner</i> <i>The Prophet</i> <i>Sand and Foam</i> <i>Jesus the Son of Man</i> <i>Earth Gods</i> <i>The Wanderer</i> <i>The Garden of the Prophet</i> <i>Prose Poems</i> <i>Spirits Rebellious</i> <i>Nymphs of the Valley</i> and <i>A Tear and a Smile</i>.