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Gibran Khalil Gibran (Arabic: جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, ALA-LC: Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, pronounced [ʒʊˈbraːn xaˈliːl ʒʊˈbraːn], or Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, pronounced [ʒɪˈbraːn]; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced kah-LEEL ji-BRAHN), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.Born in Bsharri, a village of the Ottoman-ruled Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate to a Maronite Christian family, young Gibran immigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States in 1895. As his mother worked as a seamstress, he was enrolled at a school in Boston, where his creative abilities were quickly noticed by a teacher who presented him to photographer and publisher F. Holland Day. Gibran was sent back to his native land by his family at the age of fifteen to enroll at the Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut. Returning to Boston upon his youngest sister's death in 1902, he lost his older half-brother and his mother the following year, seemingly relying afterwards on his remaining sister's income from her work at a dressmaker's shop for some time. In 1904, Gibran's drawings were displayed for the first time at Day's studio in Boston, and his first book in Arabic was published in 1905 in New York City. With the financial help of a newly met benefactress, Mary Haskell, Gibran studied art in Paris from 1908 to 1910. While there, he came in contact with Syrian political thinkers promoting rebellion in Ottoman Syria after the Young Turk Revolution; some of Gibran's writings, voicing the same ideas as well as anti-clericalism, would eventually be banned by the Ottoman authorities. In 1911, Gibran settled in New York, where his first book in English, The Madman, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, with writing of The Prophet or The Earth Gods also underway. His visual artwork was shown at Montross Gallery in 1914, and at the galleries of M. Knoedler & Co. in 1917. He had also been corresponding remarkably with May Ziadeh since 1912. In 1920, Gibran re-founded the Pen League with fellow Mahjari poets. By the time of his death at the age of 48 from cirrhosis and incipient tuberculosis in one lung, he had achieved literary fame on "both sides of the Atlantic Ocean", and The Prophet had already been translated into German and French. His body was transferred to his birth village of Bsharri (in present-day Lebanon), to which he had bequeathed all future royalties on his books, and where a museum dedicated to his works now stands. As worded by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins, Gibran's life has been described as one "often caught between Nietzschean rebellion, Blakean pantheism and Sufi mysticism." Gibran discussed different themes in his writings and explored diverse literary forms. Salma Khadra Jayyusi has called him "the single most important influence on Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of [the twentieth] century," and he is still celebrated as a literary hero in Lebanon. At the same time, "most of Gibran's paintings expressed his personal vision, incorporating spiritual and mythological symbolism," with art critic Alice Raphael recognizing in the painter a classicist, whose work owed "more to the findings of Da Vinci than it [did] to any modern insurgent." His "prodigious body of work" has been described as "an artistic legacy to people of all nations". Life Childhood Gibran was born January 6, 1883, in the village of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Syria (modern-day Lebanon). His parents, Khalil Sa'ad Gibran and Kamila Rahmeh, the daughter of a priest, were Maronite Christian. As written by Bushrui and Jenkins, they would set for Gibran an example of tolerance by "refusing to perpetuate religious prejudice and bigotry in their daily lives." Kamila's paternal grandfather had converted from Islam to Christianity. She was thirty when Gibran was born, and Gibran's father, Khalil, was her third husband. Gibran had two younger sisters, Marianna and Sultana, and an older half-brother, Boutros, from one of Kamila's previous marriages. Gibran's family lived in poverty. In 1888, Gibran entered Bsharri's one-class school, which was run by a priest, and there he learnt the rudiments of Arabic, Syriac, and arithmetic.Gibran's father initially worked in an apothecary, but he had gambling debts he was unable to pay. He went to work for a local Ottoman-appointed administrator. In 1891, while acting as a tax collector, he was removed and his staff was investigated. Khalil was imprisoned for embezzlement, and his family's property was confiscated by the authorities. Kamila decided to follow her brother to the United States. Although Khalil was released in 1894, Kamila remained resolved and left for New York on June 25, 1895, taking Boutros, Gibran, Marianna and Sultana with her. Kamila and her children settled in Boston's South End, at the time the second-largest Syrian-Lebanese-American community in the United States. Gibran entered the Josiah Quincy School on September 30, 1895. School officials placed him in a special class for immigrants to learn English. His name was registered using the anglicized spelling 'Kahlil Gibran'. His mother began working as a seamstress peddler, selling lace and linens that she carried from door-to-door. His half-brother Boutros opened a shop. Gibran also enrolled in an art school at Denison House, a nearby settlement house. Through his teachers there, he was introduced to the avant-garde Boston artist, photographer and publisher F. Holland Day, who encouraged and supported Gibran in his creative endeavors. In March 1898, Gibran met Josephine Preston Peabody, eight years his senior, at an exhibition of Day's photographs "in which Gibran's face was a major subject." Gibran would develop a romantic attachment to her. The same year, a publisher used some of Gibran's drawings for book covers. Kamila and Boutros wanted Gibran to absorb more of his own heritage rather than just the Western aesthetic culture he was attracted to. Thus, at the age of 15, Gibran returned to his homeland to study Arabic literature for three years at the Collège de la Sagesse, a Maronite-run institute in Beirut, also learning French. In his final year at the school, Gibran created a student magazine with other students, including Youssef Howayek (who would remain a lifelong friend of his), and he was made the "college poet". Gibran graduated from the school at eighteen with high honors, then went to Paris to learn painting, visiting Greece, Italy, and Spain on his way there from Beirut. On April 2, 1902, Sultana died at the age of 14, from what is believed to have been tuberculosis. Upon learning abo.... Discover the Gibran Khalil Gibran popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Gibran Khalil Gibran books.
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The Prophet
Khail GilbranThe Prophet' is a truly ground breaking inspirational book of poetry consisting of a series of prose poems. Each poem discussing an important aspect of the human condition such as ...
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La Voz Del Maestro
Kahlil GibranLa voz del maestro del famoso escritor Gibran Khalil Gibran, Fue un poeta, pintor, novelista y ensayista libanés; es conocido como el poeta del exilio. nació en 1883 en la aldea li...
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Western Star
Roxanne CarrIt is 1851. Maribel wants to see the Wild West; Dan is the frontiersman into whose care she is entrusted. Her campaign to seduce Dan is interrupted by her dalliance with a US caval...
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El Profeta - khalil Gibran
Gibrán Khalil GibránEl Profeta, el elegido y bien amado, el que era un amanecer en su propio día, había esperado doce años en la ciudad de orfalese la vuelta del barco que debía devolverlo a su isla n...
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El profeta
Gibrán Khalil GibránOcho años antes de su muerte un profeta abandona el pueblo donde ha vivido y antes de irse la gente le pide que hable de ciertos temas, cada uno de los cuales forma un capítulo del...
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The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran"My alltime favorite collection of poems . . . [Gibran's] poetry always roots me in my humanity." Rupi Kaur, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Milk and Honey, The Sun and Her...
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El Loco
Khalil Gibran"El loco es un libro corto escrito por Khalil Gibran, publicado en 1918. Esta obra la narra un solo personaje el cual se hace llamar loco. Se van contando las vivencias del hom...
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Best of Khalil Gibran
Khalil GibranThis book contains two of the best known works of Khalil Gibran. Kahlil Gibran was a LebaneseAmerican writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he hims...
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Hot on the Trail
Lukas ScottThe Midwest, 1849.Hot on the Trail is the story of the original American dream, where freedom is driven by wild passion. And when farmboy Brett skips town and encounters dangerous...
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El Profeta
Gibrán Khalil GibránOcho años antes de su muerte un profeta abandona el pueblo donde ha vivido y antes de irse la gente le pide que hable de ciertos temas, cada uno de los cuales forma un capítulo del...
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Sex with Strangers
Various ArtistsA wildly entertaining collection of short storiesShowcases some of the best erotic writing from both sides of the Atlantic. This themed collection brings you unashamed, wildly ente...
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El Profeta
Khalil GibranEl texto que Gibrán nos presenta en "El profeta" se nos ofrece como una revelación sobre la verdad de la vida en este mundo. Con estilo sencillo, de estructura dialógica y ...
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The Prophet
Khalil GibranKahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our timea collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspi...
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The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Jamil ElabedJamil Elabed, the author of this 8thGolden Copy edition of the translation into Arabic of Khalil Gibran’sThe Prophet, spent twenty years and eight editions refining this ...
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El Profeta
Khalil GibranOcho años antes de su muerte un profeta abandona el pueblo donde ha vivido y antes de irse la gente le pide que hable de ciertos temas, cada uno de los cuales forma un capítulo del...
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The Complete Poems
Emily BrontëThe poems of Emily Jane Brontë are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twentyone of her poems were published d...
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Imagist Poetry
Peter JonesImagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenthcentury poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist p...
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Jesus the Son of Man
Khalil GibranHere Jesus is portrayed through the words of 77 contemporaries who knew him enemies and friends: Syrians, Romans, Jews, priests, and poets. This edition restores the original form...
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La voz del maestro
Gibrán Khalil GibránLa voz del maestro es otra gran obra del poeta Gibran. Un libro que ayuda a la meditación diaria sobre los temas humanos, y que no pierde vigencia con el paso del tiempo. La sabidu...
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BRADAWN YEATS
Richard Mc SweeneyOf an eve in December 2013, the voice of Gibran Khalil Gibran visits Irish philosopher, poet, publisher, Richard of Éire while the latter is enjoying a cup of tea in a hotel lobby ...
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Alas rotas
Gibrán Khalil GibránGibrán narra su historia, la historia de un amor doloroso que ni la muerte pudo curar. En la primavera de aquel año, Gibrán se encontraba en BeirutLíbano. Todo es más hermoso en Lí...
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El Vagabundo
Gibrán Khalil Gibrán...después de comer nos reunimos junto al fuego y le pregunté por sus andanzas. Nos contó muchas historias aquella noche, y también al día siguiente. Pero lo que yo ahora relato na...
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El Vagabundo
Khalil GibranEl vagabundo es el hombre que ha recorrido el mundo con los ojos abiertos y el oído atento y que ha recogido las lecciones que la vida y el contacto con los hombres le han proporci...
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Los dioses de la Tierra
Gibrán Khalil GibránLos egipcios adoraban dioses con cabeza de animal o con figura humana.
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A Normal Skin
John BurnsideFrom memories of childhood and personal loss to the quiet celebration of a lover's navigational skills, from meditations on nature and sexuality to the fantasy world of aquariu...
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La Tempestad
Gibrán Khalil GibránEl Padre Samaan era profundo conocedor de temas espirituales y teológicos, versado en los secretos del pecado venial y mortal, y una autoridad en los misterios del Paraíso, el infi...
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The Prophet
Kahlil GibranKahlil Gibran’s The Prophet is considered one of the greatest classics of our time. The collection of twentysix beautiful and intriguing essays cover a comprehensive...
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Die Blumen des Propheten
Hans-Josef FritschiDas Leben ist ein Wechselspiel zwischen Kräften, die Strukturen abbauen und solchen, die Neues formen. Gemeinsam pulsieren sie um eine Mitte, in der alles eins ist. Das ist ein Gru...
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Selected Writings
Hildegard von BingenBenedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (10981179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German em...
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Hms Marathon
A E Langsford1942: The Mediterranean. The war at sea is at its most intense. Operation Stonehenge gets under way a convoy laden with desperately needed fuel, food and ammunition for the besieg...
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Astrology
Jeff MayoHere is a book for beginners wanting simple instructions on how to interpret a chart, as well as for old hands seeking fresh perspectives, it offers a unique system of selfdiscover...
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Pensamientos y meditaciones
Gibrán Khalil Gibrán"Al caer la noche el enemigo huyó con cortes de espada y heridas de lanza grabados en su espalda. Nuestros héroes hicieron ondear banderas de triunfo y entonaron cantos de victoria...
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Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran
Khalil GibranYour Lebanon is an arena for men from the West and men from the East. My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadows ...
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Intuition And Beyond
Sharon KlingerWould you like to create more abundance in your life and experience financial freedom? Have better success in choosing the right business and personal relationships? Reach a high...
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The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner & Shaun WhitesideNietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in lifeThis landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasm...
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Jesus The Son of Man
Khalil GibranJesus The Son of Man by Khalil Gibran:Jesus The Son of Man" Khalil Gibran is a thoughtprovoking and philosophical exploration of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Gibran&...
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The Talmud
Norman SolomonThe Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in its importance to Judaism. As the Bible is the word of God, The Talmud applies t...
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Everything I Know I Learned From TV
Mark RowlandsEverything I Know I Learned From TV uses characters we all know and love and their TV worlds to explain the great questions of philosophy. The only qualifications you need to join ...