The Forerunner, His Parables and Poems
Kahlil GibranKahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883-April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer whose inspiring works are still widely read and enjoyed throughout the world.The Forerunner, published in 1920, was written three years before Kahlil Gibran’s best-known work, The Prophet, and is a book composed of his developing spiritual ideas of both poetry and prose.Gibran’s popularity grew markedly during the 1960s, with the American counterculture and then with the flowering of the New Age movement. His work has remained popular with these and with the wider population to this day.Since The Prophet was first published in 1923, it has never been out of print, has been translated into more than 40 languages, and is one of the best-selling books of the 20th century in the United States.
| status | Copy #1 (8680): in |
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| genre | Spirituality » Gurus and Prophets |
| publisher | Knopf |
| publish date | 1920 |
| popularity | checked out 0 time(s) |