Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (July 2007)

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Kahlil Gibran's best-known works are life-lessons told in the forms of parables or essays. Since their publication they have become something like secular Bibles, or contemporary beatitudes, their apparent linguistic simplicity having a profound resonance for readers all over the world.

Gibran, born in Lebanon but living in America, was trying to tie together a number of different forces - religions, language and nationality among them - to create something that was not dependent on location or history to have meaning. Today, as competing theologies continue to threaten each other, his warmth and humanity remain both comforting and inspiring.