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CONTENTS Sand and Foam The Madman: His Parables and Poems The Forerunner: His Parables and PoemsGods Fool Love The King-Hermit The Lions Daughter Tyranny The Saint The Plutocrat The Greater Self War and the Small Nations Critics Poets The Weather-cock The King of Aradus Out of My Deeper Heart Dynasties Knowledge and Half-Knowledge Said a Sheet of Snow-White Paper.... The Scholar and the Poet Values Other Seas Repentance The Dying Man and the VultureBeyond My Solitude The Last Watch About the AuthorGibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.Born in a village of the Ottoman-ruled Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate to a Maronite family, the young Gibran immigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States in 1895. As his mother worked as a seamstress, he was enrolled at a school in Boston, where his creative abilities were quickly noticed by a teacher who presented him to photographer and publisher F. Holland Day. Gibran was sent back to his native land by his family at the age of fifteen to enroll at the Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut. Returning to Boston upon his youngest sisters death in 1902, he lost his older half-brother and his mother the following year, seemingly relying afterwards on his remaining sisters income from her work at a dressmakers shop for some time.In 1904, Gibrans drawings were displayed for the first time at Days studio in Boston, and his first book in Arabic was published in 1905 in New York City. With the financial help of a newly met benefactress, Mary Haskell, Gibran studied art in Paris from 1908 to 1910. While there, he came in contact with Syrian political thinkers promoting rebellion in Ottoman Syria after the Young Turk Revolution; some of Gibrans writings, voicing the same ideas as well as anti-clericalism, would eventually be banned by the Ottoman authorities. In 1911, Gibran settled in New York, where his first book in English, The Madman, would be published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, with writing of The Prophet or The Earth Gods also underway. His visual artwork was shown at Montross Gallery in 1914, and at the galleries of M. Knoedler & Co. in 1917. He had also been corresponding remarkably with May Ziadeh since 1912. In 1920, Gibran re-founded the Pen League with fellow Mahjari poets. By the time of his death at the age of 48 from cirrhosis and incipient tuberculosis in one lung, he had achieved literary fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and The Prophet had already been translated into German and French. His body was transferred to his birth village of Bsharri (in present-day Lebanon), to which he had bequeathed all future royalties on his books, and where a museum dedicated to his works now stands... (wikipedia.org)Book specifications:Dimensions: 229 x 152Author: Kahli GibranCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2023Publishing Month: 1Pages: 118Language: EnglishPublisher: Bibliotech PressWeight: 154 g
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