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"I do not think the East has spoken with so beautiful a voice since the Gitanjali of Rabindranath Tagore ..." - G. W. Russell Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet, philosopher and painter, occupies a unique position in today's world. His name is synonymous with peace, spiritual values... Read Full Overview

This collection of parables, completed shortly before Gibran's death in 1931, is in many ways a crystallization of the poet's entire message. It is as though, as his life drew to a close, he turned more and more towards his childhood and his youth, recalling not only the mood... Read Full Overview

'The Wanderer' is a beloved collection of some fifty tales, parables, and sayings.

الكاتب والفيلسوف والشاعر والرسّام اللبناني (1883-1931)... Read Full Overview

A solitary figure drifts through shifting landscapes, each encounter shimmering with poetic wisdom and quiet revelation. In this collection of philosophical short stories, the boundaries between reality and allegory blur, inviting the reader into a meditative prose fiction where... Read Full Overview

I met him at the crossroads, a man with but a cloak and a staff, and a veil of pain upon his face. And we greeted one another, and I said to him, "Come to my house and be my guest." And he came. My wife and my children met us at the threshold, and he smiled at them, and they... Read Full Overview

Shortly before his death Gibran completed this book. In these beautiful parables and drawings are crystallized his whole life's message-a message that has consoled and inspired thousands of readers since its publication.