TWENTY DRAWINGS
BY KAHLIL GIBRAN
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY ALICE RAPHAEL
NEW YORK
ALFRED · A · KNOPF
MCMXIX[Pg 5]
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PLATES
- Towards the Infinite, Frontispiece
- The Greater Self
- The Blind
- The Mountain
- Flight
- Centaur and Child
- Uplifted
- The Rock
- The Waterfall
- The Burden
- The Great Longing
- Veiled Face
- Crucified
- Compassion
- The Triangle
- The Struggle
- The Great Aloneness
- Woman With Garment
- Mother and Child
- Innermost
ON THE ART OF KAHLIL GIBRAN
“The lives of former generations are a lesson to posterity.” Thisquotation from the volume which is currently accepted as themasterpiece of ancient Arabic literature, The Thousand and One Nights,serves in a slightly paraphrased form as a fitting introduction to thework of the most authoritative artist and poet of modern Arabia—Kahlil Gibran.
In the near East there are over a hundred
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