Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Castle
Pages
902
Description
The most wide-ranging collection of wisdom and works from the legendary twentieth-century spiritual guide and author of The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran produced some of the world's most remarkable poems and philosophical essays throughout his almost thirty-year career. This enriching collection of his works includes more than 150 of his stories, prose poems, verse, parables, and autobiographical essays. From The Broken Wings, about the tragic end of a first love, to A Self Portrait, revealing Gibran's greatest passions through his personal letters to friends and family, each book in this collection serves as an absorbing and comprehensive introduction to the legendary thinker.
Description
The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran 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 comprises the major body of Kahlil Gibran’s works.
Each of the ten books included in this beautifully bound collectors’ volume has been hailed by critics as literary masterpieces. The works in this collection clearly demonstrate why critics regard Kahlil Gibran as eminent among the world's great writers. His writings reflect the wistful beauty, fierce anger, lofty majesty and the abiding peace that Eastern wisdom achieves in its contemplation.
Table of Contents:
Tears and laughter
Between night & morn
Secrets of the heart
Spirits rebellious
The broken wings
The voice of the master
Thoughts and meditations
A self-portrait
Mirrors of the soul
The wisdom of Kahlil Gibran.
Each of the ten books included in this beautifully bound collectors’ volume has been hailed by critics as literary masterpieces. The works in this collection clearly demonstrate why critics regard Kahlil Gibran as eminent among the world's great writers. His writings reflect the wistful beauty, fierce anger, lofty majesty and the abiding peace that Eastern wisdom achieves in its contemplation.
Table of Contents:
Tears and laughter
Between night & morn
Secrets of the heart
Spirits rebellious
The broken wings
The voice of the master
Thoughts and meditations
A self-portrait
Mirrors of the soul
The wisdom of Kahlil Gibran.
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
902 p.; 9.25 inches
ISBN
089009389X / 9780890093894
UPC
039864093897
Call number
FIC A4 Gib