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The Great Works of Khalil Gibran is a collection of the Lebanese poet's greatest works in an omnibus. Summary of the Book Bringing together twelve of Khalil Gibran's works, this book introduces readers to the writer. The books included in the collection are: The Prophet. Jesus Son Of Man, A Tear And A Smile, The Broken Wings, The Earth Gods, The Forerunner, The Madman, Sand and Foam, Spirit Rebellious, Lazarus and His Beloved, The Wanderer, and Classic Poetry. Gibran's writing is scented with his formal language and the concept universal love. His poems celebrate love in all its forms and his writing deals frequently with Christian themes and spiritual love. Merging Islam, Sufism and Judaism into the fray, he celebrates mysticism of all forms. His immortalized work, The Prophet, begins with quartrains from Nostradamus, and reveals Gibran's affiliation with the mystic as well. About Khalil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese poet, writer and artist renown for his poems, considered rebellious by the Arab world. Born into a Maronite Catholic family, he was taken to the United States at the age of 12, and received an education at Boston. He is best remembered for The Prophet, which is considered one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century and has never gone out of print since its publication.