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BN PUBLISHING The Collected Works by Kahlil Gibran
For the first time the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one volume that represents the most comprehensive volume of works of the Lebanese poet and philosopher ever published. This enriching collection of stories prose poems verse parables and autobiographical essays comprising the major body of Kahlil Gibrans works have been carefully translated and edited by a noted trio of Gibran scholars. Poet artist and mystic Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece The Prophet a book of poetic essays that he began while still a youth in Lebanon is one of the most cherished books of our time and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages since its publication in 1923. But all of Gibrans worksessays stories parables and prose poemsare imbued with equally powerful simplicity and wisdom whether they are addressing marriage or children friendship or grief work or pleasure. Perhaps no other twentiethcentury writer has touched the hearts and minds of so remarkably varied and widespread a readership.show more