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, "The Prophet",
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.
Hardcover, 884 pages