Khalil Gibran – Spirits Rebellious – 1949

A collection of four short stories that were first published in Arabic in 1908, and here in the first edition in English.

Controversial upon release, they offered criticism of the political and religious norms in Lebanon at the time, and led to Gibran essentially been exiled from the country.

Gibran remains best-known for his bestselling book of parables, The Prophet, published in New York in 1923.

Translated from the Arabic by A.R. Ferris, the stories were first published in English in 1947 in New York, and in London in 1948. This is the London edition, by William Heinemann.

Hardback, bound in black cloth with lettering to spine.