His death in 1931 made front-page news. The slim book of parables, illustrated with Gibran's drawings, became one of the all-time bestselling books. It’s an amazing feat for a book whose ...

and during the next four years he published three Gibran books; all sold dismally. The Prophet, brought out in 1923, did slightly better. Of a rather ambitious first printing of 2,000, Knopf ...

Kahlil Gibran in 1896, aged 14 ... languages and has never been out of print – arguably one of the bestselling books of all time. It is somewhat preposterous to me that it has largely been ...