Best of Khalil Gibran

"This book contains two of the best known works of Khalil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran was a Lchanose-American writer, pont and visual urtist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title Gibran discussed ""such themes as religion, justice, free will. science, love, happiness, the soul, the body, and death"" in his writings, which were ""characterized by innovation breaking with fonus of the past, by symbolism, an undying love for his native land, and a sentimental, melancholic yet often oratorical style."" About his language in general (both in Arabic and English), Salma Khadra Jayyusi remarks that ""because of the spiritual and univers aspect of his general themes, he seems to leave chosen a vocabulary les idiomatic than would normally have been chosen by a modern poet conscious of modemism in languago."" According to Jean Gibran and Kahlil G. Gibran,"