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The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems

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The wisdom, poetic outlook, and deep humanity for which Gibran's best-known work, The Prophet , is famous are also amply present in The Forerunner , published just 3 years earlier. Heartfelt and compassionate, it is a memorable, internationally acclaimed collection of 24 morality tales dealing with universal human concerns. Five black-and-white illustrations by the author.

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1900

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64 pages, Paperback
Published
April 6, 2000 by Dover Publications
ISBN
9780486411347
ASIN
0486411346
Language
English

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Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer.
Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, gaining popularity in the 1930s and again, especially in the 1960s counterculture.
Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.

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darkstom248
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يا له من قلب مفعم بالذكريات، بالحب، بالإنسانية، بالعاطفة، والحنين..
كلمات ساحرة تنبش في ذاكرة قديمة بقدم الإنسان نفسه، تُشكل معناً وروحاً أبدياً مشتركاً بين الطبيعة والإنسان..

جبران صديق الطبيعة وباعث الكلمات الساحرة..
كتاب مخصص للحالمين، المتوهجين في عالم الترانيم الخالدة..
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Munstuh
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This collection of parables and poems by Kahlil Gibran aren't as good as some of his other ones.
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number1mongrel
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قلم خرافي من الطبيعي ان يبدع كتابة هذا الكاتب له اسلوب ولغة لا مثيل لهما.! مستمرة انا في الابحار في عالم جبران الفلسفي العميق .
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AlterSaber569
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-- ويستمر جبران فى أسلوبه الموسيقى الآسر الجميل .
-- الكتاب عبارة عن أربعٍ وعشرين حكاية قصيرة و قصيدة نثر مع مقدمة .
-- فى حكايات وأمثال جبران حكمة عميقة .
-- حكاياته تمتاز ببساطة فى السرد ، وسلاسة فى التركيب ، وطرافة فى الصور الرمزية .
-- فى هذا الكتاب تبنّى جبران بشكل كبير مبدأ التقمّص والعودات الدائمة المطهّرة ، والدوران فى الأبد ، والانبثاق من الله والرجوع إليه ، فلا بدء ولا نهاية إلا فيه لأنه الأزل .
الحياة لا يحدّها زمن ففى كل موت تهيئة لولادة جديدة .
النسبى عند البشر يتضاءل حتى يمّحى إزاء المطلق الإلهى .
-- أعجبتنى جدًا قصة " البحار الأخرى " .
-- لم تعجبنى وجهة نظر جبران فى قصة " الناقدون "
وأرى أن أصدقاءه على حق لأنهم انتقدوا ما يخصهم " وهو صديقهم " وليس من شأنهم انتقاد شخص غير موجود " وهو اللص " .
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hokageofthenorth
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واقعااا کتاب فوق‌العاده‌ایه. سرتاسرش حس آرامش میده به آدم. داستان‌هایی که تو دلشون به آدم درس زندگی میدن. و البته نکته‌ای که تو تمام داستان‌های خلیل جبران، وجود خدا حس می‌شد و اینکه تمام تلاششو می‌کرد که این وجود رو به همه اثبات کنه.
حتما بهتون پیشنهاد میکنم برید سراغش
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It's not that I don't enjoy classics. I only read classics when it comes to Arabic books. Some of the short stories were enjoyable. But I didn't understand most of it *which is probably my fault* and I read it like it was 500-pages-long.
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ChocolateKat
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In one parable...
Four poets were sitting around a bowl of punch that stood on a table.

Said the first poet, "Methinks I see with my third eye the fragrance of this wine hovering in space like a cloud of birds in an enchanted forest."

The second poet raised his head and said, "With my inner ear I can hear those mist-birds singing. And the melody holds my heart as the white rose imprisons the bee within her petals."

The third poet closed his eyes and stretched his arm upwards, and said, "I touch them with my hand. I feel their wings, like the breath of a sleeping fairy, brushing against my fingers."

Then the fourth poet rose and lifted up the bowl, and he said, "Alas, friends! I am too dull of sight and of hearing and of touch. I cannot see the fragrance of this wine, nor hear its song, nor feel the beating of its wings. I perceive but the wine itself. Now therefore must I drink it, that it may sharpen my senses and raise me to your blissful heights."

And putting the bowl to his lips, he drank the punch to the very last drop.

The three poets, with their mouths open, looked at him aghast, and there was a thirsty yet unlyrical hatred in their eyes.
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