{"product_id":"the-madman-his-parables-and-poems-new-illustrated-edition","title":"The Madman: His Parables and Poems: New Illustrated Edition","description":" “His power came from some great\nreservoir of spiritual life\nelse it could not have\nso universal and so potent,\nbut the majesty and\nbeauty of the language\nwith which he clothed it\nwere all his own”\n― Claude Bragdon\n\nThis ebook is a slim volume of aphorisms and parables written in biblical cadence somewhere between poetry and prose (First published 1918).\n\n This is a new edition for kindle with active table of contents, drop caps and original drawings by the author.\nGrab the free preview or \"look inside\" and give it a try.\n\nTable of contents\nHow I Became A Madman\nGod\nMy Friend\nThe Scarecrow\nThe Sleep Walkers\nThe Wise Dog\nThe Two Hermits\nOn Giving And Taking\nThe Seven Selves\nWar\nThe Fox\nThe Wise King\nAmbition\nThe New Pleasure\nThe Other Language\nThe Pomegranate\nThe Two Cages\nThe Three Ants\nThe Grave-Digger\nOn The Strips Of The Temple\nThe Blessed City\nThe Good God and the Evil God\n\"Defeat\"\nNight And The Madman\nFaces\nThe Greater Sea\nCrucified\nThe Astronomer\nThe Great Longing\nSaid a Blade of Grass\nThe Eye\nThe Two Learned Men\nWhen My Sorrow Was Born\nAnd When My Joy Was Born\n\"The Perfect World\"\n\n Incipit\nYou ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen,—the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives,—I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, “Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.”\nMen and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.\nAnd when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, “He is a madman.” I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, “Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.”\nThus I became a madman.\nAnd I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.\nBut let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.\n\n Biography\n1883-KAHLIL GIBRAN-1931\nPoet, philosopher, and artist, was born in Lebanon, a land that has produced many prophets. The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age. But he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the Near East. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages. His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake. In the United States, which he made his home during the last twenty years of his life, he began to write in English. The Prophet and his other books of poetry, illustrated with his mystical drawings, are known and loved by innumerable Americans who find in them an expression of the, deepest impulses of man's heart and mind.\n\n More Kentauron books\nhttp:\/\/smarturl.it\/Kentauron\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0BD22C4QF\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.B0BD22C4QF.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Gibran, Kahlil|Arvott, Wirton|Gibran, Khalil\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43280388456509,"sku":"BVV.B0BD22C4QF.G","price":9.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-madman-his-parables-and-poems-new-illustrated-edition","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}