Authors: Kahlil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran
ISBN-13: 9780394404288, ISBN-10: 0394404289
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: September 1923
Edition: Reprinted Edition
Kahlil Gibran, poet, philosopher, and artist was born in Lebanon, in 1883, and received his primary education in Beruit before emigrating with his parents to Boston in 1895. In 1889 he returned to Lebanon to continue his studies in Arabic before returning to Boston in 1903, around which time he met Mart Haskell, who would become his lifelong benefactor. In 1912, he settled in New York City and devoted himself to writing (both in Arabic and English) and to painting. Gibran died in 1931.
One of America's most purchased and beloved books. An excellent gift for people of any age, full of wisdom and simple poetry, addressing twenty seven topics of our daily lives. Elegant paper back edition, enhanced by drawings of the renowned Aubrey Beardsley. An evergreen bestseller.
The Coming of the Ship | 3 | |
On Love | 12 | |
On Marriage | 16 | |
On Children | 18 | |
On Giving | 20 | |
On Eating and Drinking | 24 | |
On Work | 27 | |
On Joy and Sorrow | 32 | |
On Houses | 34 | |
On Clothes | 38 | |
On Buying and Selling | 40 | |
On Crime and Punishment | 42 | |
On Laws | 48 | |
On Freedom | 51 | |
On Reason and Passion | 55 | |
On Pain | 58 | |
On Self-Knowledge | 60 | |
On Teaching | 62 | |
On Friendship | 64 | |
On Talking | 66 | |
On Time | 68 | |
On Good and Evil | 70 | |
On Prayer | 74 | |
On Pleasure | 77 | |
On Beauty | 81 | |
On Religion | 84 | |
On Death | 87 | |
The Farewell | 89 |