Prophet: The Life And Times of Kahlil Gibran - Hardcover

Waterfield, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713992093 ISBN 13: 9780713992090

Verlag: Allen Lane, 1998

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 365 pages; Physical description: xviii, 365p. , [16]p. Of plates : ill. , ports. ; 25cm. Subjects: Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931. Authors, Arab - Lebanon - Biography. Authors, Arab - 20th century - Biography. Summary: In this biography, Robin Waterfield traces the influences that have shaped Gibran, from the decadence of the fin-de-seicle Boston to the vigour of Greenwich Village in its heyday before World War I. He explores Gibran's development from wounded Romantic and angry young man to his final metamorphosis as the prophet of New York.

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Reseña del editor:

In a new definitive biography Robin Waterfield traces the influences that made Gibran, from the decadence of fin-de-siecle Boston to the vigour of Greenwich village in its heyday before the First World War. He explores Gibran's development from wounded Romatic and angry young man to his final metamorphosis as the Prophet of New York. While looking at Gibran's development as a writer, the biography also offers fresh insights into his life and loves, completely reappraising all of the remaining primary sources on Gibran's life and character. Behind the legendary, best-selling phenomenon there was a real man - a man who loved and lost, and was in many ways unhappy, and ended up by burning himself out with overwork and alcoholism.

Biografía del autor:

Robin Waterfield is a renowned authority on Gibran and his work. He commissions religious and New Age works for Penguin's Arkana list and has translated a number of ancient Greek texts for Penguin Classics and Oxford University Press. His anthology of Kahlil Gibran's work, THE VOICE OF KAHLIL GIBRAN, was published by Arkana in 1995.

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• Verlag: Allen Lane
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0713992093
• ISBN 13: 9780713992090
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384