| Gibran's Parables: The Master Collection: Original Unedited Edition Contributor(s): Smith, Dallas M. (Contribution by), Publications, Wsl (Contribution by), Gibran, Khalil (Author) |
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ISBN: 1545569711 ISBN-13: 9781545569719 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.67 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Religious |
| Series: Khalil Gibran Collection |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5" W x 8" (0.43 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the must have collection of Gibran's finest works in their original and unedited format.The Broken WingsOriginal Unedited EditionThe Broken Wings is a poetic novel written by Khalil Gibran and first published in Arabic in 1912. It is a tale of tragic love, set in turn-of-the-century Beirut. A young woman, Selma Karamy is betrothed to a prominent religious man's nephew. The protagonist, a young man, perhaps even Gibran himself, falls in love with this woman. They begin to meet in secret, however they are discovered, and Selma is forbidden to leave her house, breaking their hopes and hearts. The book highlights many of the social issues of the time in the Eastern Mediterranean, including religious corruption, the rights of women (and lack thereof), and the weighing up of wealth and happiness.*****The ProphetOriginal Unedited EditionPoetry / Inspirational & ReligiousThe prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.*****The Madman: His Parables and PoemsOriginal Unedited EditionYou ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen, --the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives, --I ran mask-less through the crowded streets shouting, "Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves." Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me. And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, "He is a madman." I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman. And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. |