Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in 1923 and has become one of the best-selling books of all time, with translations into more than 100 languages. The Prophet consists of 26 prose poetry fables about the prophet, Al Mustafa, who has lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years. About to board a ship to take him home, he is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses topics such as love, marriage, children, work, joy and sorrow, good and evil, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, friendship, pleasure, beauty, and death. The Madman, His Parables and Poems was published in 1918. It contains parables and poems, many of them with an ironic twist on the beliefs, aspirations, and vanities of humankind. Among the poems and parables in this volume are "How I Became a Madman", "The Two Hermits", "The Wise Dog", "The Good God and the Evil God", "Night and the Madman", "When My Sorrow Was Born", and "And When My Joy Was Born".
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