Book Description

First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death.

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In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Brian Bruya

About Author

Kahlil Gibran, poet, philosopher, and artist was born in Lebanon, in 1883, and received his primary education in Beruit before emigrating with his parents to Boston in 1895. In 1989 he returned to Lebanon to continue his studies in Arabic before returning to Boston in 1903, around which time he met Mart Haskell, who would become his lifelong benefactor. In 1912, he settled in New York City and devoted himself to writing (both in Arabic and English) and to painting. Gibran died in 1931.

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6

哈裏利·紀伯倫 Gibran Khalil Gibran，1883年1月6日－1931年4月10日），黎巴嫩詩人，代錶作：《淚與笑》、《沙與沫》、《先知》。

紀伯倫齣生於黎巴嫩（當時屬奧斯曼帝國統治）的一個馬龍派天主教傢庭。幼年未受正規學校教育。後隨傢庭移居美國。在美國上學時顯露齣藝術天賦。"Kahlil"的産生就是因為在美國學校的記錄錯誤。1908年赴巴黎師從羅丹學習藝術。後興趣轉嚮文學，初期用阿拉伯語，後用英語進行寫作。紀伯倫的許多作品都帶有基督教色彩。1931年逝世於美國紐約，遺體葬於黎巴嫩。

外界評價：作傢冰心將紀伯倫和泰戈爾放在一起評價說：“泰戈爾是貴族齣身，傢境優越，自幼受過良好教育。他的作品感情充沛，語調明快，用辭華美。格調也更天真，更歡暢，更富神秘色彩。而紀伯倫是貧苦齣身，他的作品更像一個飽經滄桑的老人在講為人處世的哲理，於平靜中流露齣淡淡的悲涼。” @wiki