Thoughts and Meditations

London England: Heinemann. Very Good/Good. 1973. Reprint. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0434290750 Hardback Hardback. Shelf wear and a couple of small tears to edge of D/J. Price clipped. Translated from the Arabic by Anthony R. Ferris. This volume of writings by Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese mystic and author of The Prophet, contains examples of three aspects of his genius. There is the impassioned fighter against politics, for Gibran the embodiment of corruption, injustice and ignorance. In a series of evocative allegories he imagines, against a background of the evils of modern society, the world as it might be if it were governed by reason and understanding. There is the poet of love, whose wonderful responsiveness to the beauties of nature is expressed in sensuous and delicate prose and verse. perhaps the most impressive amoungts all Gibrhan's writings are his mystical, visionary poems, describing the transmigration of souls, through tales of lovers tragically parted in one existence and reunited after centuries of separation in a later incarnation. 112 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .