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The Forerunner

by Kahlil Gibran

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First published
1920
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40
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This slim 1920 collection gathers a couple dozen parables and poems in which Gibran turns small fables toward large questions about the self. A man argues with his own shadow, a poet weighs love against solitude, a seed dreams of the orchard it might become. The pieces are brief and deliberately plain on the surface, yet each pushes toward a hard truth about pride, longing, or the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be. The tone sits somewhere between scripture and folk tale, the same voice readers know from The Prophet, which followed three years later. Gibran illustrated the original edition himself.

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Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and painter. Born in Bsharri in what is now Lebanon, he emigrated as a boy to Boston. A leading figure of the Arab emigre literary movement, he is best remembered for The Prophet, one of the best-selling books of the century.

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Book facts

First published
1920
Reading time
About 30 minutes
Pages
40
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
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