Kahlil Gibran Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Broken Wings (1912)

Collections

  1. Spirits Rebellious (1908)
  2. A Tear and a Smile (1914)
  3. The Eye of the Prophet (1995)

Plays

  1. Lazarus and his Beloved (1973)

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Kahlil Gibran Books Overview

A Tear and a Smile

Contains 56 parables, stories, and poems in Gibran’s wholly inimitable manner. Illustrated with 4 of his own paintings and drawings, it is the most important edition to the canon of this great writer.

The Eye of the Prophet

The Eye of the Prophet is a luminous collection of Gibran’s writings translated from Arabic into French and now into English. Here the author is the poetic, philosophical moralist, grounded in Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, seeking the best in people, refusing to separate humankind from the natural world. Ordinary work and life, he says, has the potential to be inherently noble, if we can learn to enact our affairs with the sublimity of nature’s creations.

Gibran’s descriptions celebrate the dignity and freedom of animals, birds, the seasons, oceans, clouds. His is a poet s eye; he abhors the tentacles of government and calls on citizens to question all ideologies. In this book he writes about life s great moments and passages The First Kiss, The First Glance, The Mystery of Love, Youth; eternal essences Earth, The Nature of Woman, Marriage, Love, Truth, Poetry, and grapples with nationalism, religion, and spiritual growth. The Eye of the Prophet blends Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist ideals into a great spiritual tapestry that transcends all cultural divisions. With its vibrant, rhythmic language, it speaks to our challenging times as a worthy companion to The Prophet.

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