Selected Works Of Kahlil Gibran

CONTENTS NYMPHS OF THE VALLEY SPIRITS REBELLIOUS THE BROKEN WINGS TEARS AND LAUGHTER THE MADMAN THE FORERUNNER THE PROPHET SAND AND FOAM JESUS THE SON OF MAN THE WANDERER SHORTER WRITINGS ABOUT THE BOOK This omnibus brings you some of the best-loved writings of Kahlil Gibran, the twentieth-century mystic and artist of Lebanese origin. The selection features four of his English translations from their Arabic originals: Nymphs of the Valley (1906), Spirits Rebellious (1908), The Broken Wings (1912) and Tears and Laughter ( 1918). Besides The Prophet (1923), the most celebrated of all his writings, the book features the other four works that Gibran wrote in English: The Madman (1918), The Forerunner (1920), Sand and Foam (1926) and Jesus, the Son of Man (1928). Also included here is The Wanderer (1932), the last and posthumously published work "of a man but with a cloak and a staff with a veil of pain upon his face." This volume also contains some selections of Gibran's shorter writings and essays, which are as timeless in their essence — and persuasive in their immediacy as are his spiritual musings. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in Lebanon in 1883, Kahlil Gibran spent most of his life in America. Besides attaining success as an artist in the symbolist tradition, it was here that Gibran found his calling "to write for the soul," an enthusiastic patron in Mary Haskell and, soon after, recognition as a modern-day mystic. The lucidity of his worldview endeared him to his readers the world over, in America particularly where he influenced the popular culture in the sixties. While his representative work, The Prophet contains the quintessence of Gibran's philosophy of life, his repudiation of feudal oppression, male chauvinism and religious hypocrisy rings through all his works —whether one reads his short-story anthologies (Nymphs of the Valley and Spirits Rebellious), prose poems (Tears and Laughter), parables (The Madman, The Forerunner and The Wanderer), aphorisms (Sand and Foam) or the only novelette he ever wrote, The Broken Wings. The theme of exile finds recurrent expression in his work.Nostalgia about the Lebanese mountains echoes loud and clear throughout; a deep sense of being uprooted from his native land stirred Gibran in his later life to write for journals published by the Lebanese and Arab communities in America. In the years following his death in 1931,at the age of forty-eight, Gibran came to be regarded as the Prophet himself.