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Nonfiction · 1918

The Prophet, The Madman and The Forerunner

Kahlil Gibran

Reading time
about 2 h
Length
26,105 words · 198 pages
Structure
88 chapters
Language
English
Era
Modern

Kahlil Gibran’s three books of parables and poems, in one volume. The Prophet (1923), written in English and published in New York, gives the sayings of Almustafa — on love, on marriage, on work, on joy and sorrow, on death — delivered to the people of Orphalese before the ship carries him home; it became one of the most widely read books of its century. The Madman (1918) and The Forerunner (1920), his first two books in English, are shorter and darker: fables, aphorisms and night-pieces in the same cadenced prose.

This Bibliomancer edition presents all three books complete, The Prophet first, then The Madman and The Forerunner in the order they appeared.

Contents

  1. The Prophet (1923)
  2. The Coming of the Ship
  3. On Love
  4. On Marriage
  5. On Children
  6. On Giving
  7. On Eating and Drinking
  8. On Work
  9. On Joy and Sorrow
  10. On Houses
  11. On Clothes
  12. On Buying and Selling
  13. On Crime and Punishment
  14. On Laws
  15. On Freedom
  16. On Reason and Passion
  17. On Pain
  18. On Self-Knowledge
  19. On Teaching
  20. On Friendship
  21. On Talking
  22. On Time
  23. On Good and Evil
  24. On Prayer
  25. On Pleasure
  26. On Beauty
  27. On Religion
  28. On Death
  29. The Farewell
  30. The Madman (1918)
  31. How I Became a Madman
  32. God
  33. My Friend
  34. The Scarecrow
  35. The Sleep-Walkers
  36. The Wise Dog
  37. The Two Hermits
  38. On Giving and Taking
  39. The Seven Selves
  40. War
  41. The Fox
  42. The Wise King
  43. Ambition
  44. The New Pleasure
  45. The Other Language
  46. The Pomegranate
  47. The Two Cages
  48. The Three Ants
  49. The Grave-Digger
  50. On the Steps of the Temple
  51. The Blessed City
  52. The Good God and the Evil God
  53. Defeat
  54. Night and the Madman
  55. Faces
  56. The Greater Sea
  57. Crucified
  58. The Astronomer
  59. The Great Longing
  60. Said a Blade of Grass
  61. The Eye
  62. The Two Learned Men
  63. When My Sorrow Was Born
  64. And When My Joy Was Born
  65. The Perfect World
  66. The Forerunner (1920)
  67. The Forerunner
  68. God’s Fool
  69. Love
  70. The King-Hermit
  71. The Lion’s Daughter
  72. Tyranny
  73. The Saint
  74. The Plutocrat
  75. The Greater Self
  76. War and the Small Nations
  77. Critics
  78. Poets
  79. The Weather-Cock
  80. The King of Aradus
  81. Out of My Deeper Heart
  82. Dynasties
  83. Knowledge and Half-Knowledge
  84. “Said a Sheet of Snow-White Paper…”
  85. The Scholar and the Poet
  86. Values
  87. Other Seas
  88. Repentance
  89. The Dying Man and the Vulture
  90. Beyond My Solitude
  91. The Last Watch

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Kahlil Gibran

1883–1931 · Modern

Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) was born at Bsharri, in what is now Lebanon, and emigrated with his mother to Boston in 1895. He studied art in Paris, wrote first in Arabic and later in English, and settled in New York, where he was the central figure of the Arabic-language literary circle there. The Madman (1918), The Forerunner (1920) and The Prophet (1923) are the best known of his English books. He was a painter as well as a writer, and is buried at Bsharri.

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