A comprehensive illustrated biography of
Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction
The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-born artist, poet, writer and polymath who emigrated to America as a young man in the 1890s, where he became
a successful artist and prose poet.
His book
The Prophet (1923), a series of twenty-six philosophical essays written in poetic English prose became a
world-wide bestseller after a sluggish start, selling
40 million copies, and becoming a particular favourite of the 1960s counterculture.
As a writer, Gibran encouraged a renaissance in Arab literature; as an artist he painted hundreds of canvases including portraits of artistic celebrities. Raised a Maronite Catholic, his spirituality thought
embraces elements of other traditions including Sufi mysticism and the Baha''i faith.
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
544 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2017-03-09 |
| ISBN |
9781786695277 |
