The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran

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>.