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Additional authors

1. Shehadi, Albert
2. Shehadi, William
3. Gibran, Kahlil, 1922-2008

Description

1. 442 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

1. "This definitive biography of Kahlil Gibran- author of The Prophet and voice of his Middle Eastern countrymen- traces the phenomenon of a first-generation immigrant succeeding in twentieth-century American arts and letters"--Front jacket flap

Subject

1. Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931
2. Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931
3. Ǧibrān, Ǧibrān Ḫalīl 1883-1931
4. Ǧibrān, Ǧibrān Ḫalīl
5. Authors, Arab > United States > Biography
6. Authors, Arab > Lebanon > Biography
7. Mystics > Biography
8. Wounds and injuries
9. Accidents
10. Wounds and Injuries
11. Accidents
12. Activities for Daily Living
13. Health Surveys
14. accidents
15. Wounds and injuries
16. Authors, Arab
17. Mystics
18. Authors, Arab > Lebanon > Biography
19. Authors, Arab > United States > Biography
20. Mystics > Biography
21. United States
22. Lebanon

Genre/Form

1. Statistics
2. Biography
3. Biographies
4. Biographies.
5. Statistics.
6. Statistiques.

Contents

1. Poor in Besharri -- A city wilderness -- The sick little end of the century -- The young sheik -- Miss Beabody -- Pegasus harnessed to an ash-wagon -- A galley of gracious and novel heads -- Strange music -- The presence of she-angel -- Le jeune ecrivain arabe -- Talk of marriage -- A concord soul -- A three-cornered friendship -- The birth of a legend -- Conquering New York -- Learning to think in English -- The war years -- The prophet -- Arrabitah: the pen-bond -- No longer apart -- Cosmopolite -- The last years.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.
2. From the William H. Shehadi collection of Kahlil Gibran, C1178 (AM 2007-94).

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 432-437.

Source (note)

1. Gift of Albert Shehadi

Provenance (note)

1. Bookplate of William H. Shehadi.