This is one of the most complete collections available of the great poet and writer Kahlil Gibran works, putting together eleven of his greatest creations, including the immortal work "The Prophet". Gibran's best-known work, The Prophet is composed of twenty-six poetic essays. Its popularity grew markedly during the 1960s with the American counterculture and then with the flowering of the New Age movements. It has remained popular with these and with the wider population to this day. Since it was first published in 1923, it has never been out of print, and has been translated into more than forty languages. The collection, published in chronological order, features the following works: Spirits Rebellious (1903) The Broken Wings (1912) A Tear and a Smile (1914) The Madman (1918) The Forerunner (1920) The Prophet (1923) Sand and Foam (1926) Jesus the Son of Man (1928) Lazarus and his Beloved (1929) The Earth Gods (1931) The Wanderer (1932) The Garden of the Prophet (1933)
Author
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران ) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero. He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, gaining popularity in the 1930s and again, especially in the 1960s counterculture. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.
