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The storm : stories and prose poems / Kahlil Gibran ; translated by John Walbridge ; with a new introduction by Robin Waterfield.
LIBRA - Special PJ7826.I2 A277 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931.
- Series:
- Penguin arkana.
- Penguin arkana
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 1997
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931--Translations into English.
- Gibran, Kahlil.
- Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931.
- Mysticism--Literary collections.
- Mysticism.
- Arabic literature--Translations into English.
- Arabic literature.
- English literature--Translations from Arabic.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Fiction.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 93 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Arkana Penguin Books, 1997.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Arabic.
- Summary:
- "The Storm" gives definitive expression to many of Gibran's key themes: the injustice meted out to the poor and the weak; the beauties of nature needlessly destroyed by man; and the innocent purity of young love, so often crushed underfoot by society.
- Contents:
- The soul
- The storm
- The poet
- A vision
- Slavery
- In the city of the dead
- To my oppressed friend
- The cry of the graves
- Between night and morn
- A lamentation in the field
- Solitude and isolation
- A ship in the mist
- The unseeing force
- Before the throne of beauty.
- ISBN:
- 0140195521
- 9780140195521
- OCLC:
- 38287085
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