The Book of Khalid

The book of Khalid

Literature & Fiction

Rihani, Ameen Fares

United States

Legare Street Press

The Descent Of Bolshevism (1920)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

The Path Of Vision: Pocket Essays Of East And West (1921)

History

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Andesite Press

<p>With supreme indifference to the classic Arabic proem, he begins by saying that his Book is neither a Memoir nor an Autobiography, neither a Journal nor a Confession. “Orientals,” says he, “seldom adventure into that region of fancy and fabrication so alluring to European and American writers; for, like the eyes of huris, our vanity is soft and demure. This then is a book of travels in an impalpable country, an enchanted country, from which we have all risen, and towards which we are still rising. It is, as it were, the chart and history of one little kingdom of the Soul,––the Soul of a philosopher, poet and criminal. I am all three, I swear, for I have lived both the wild and the social life. And I have thirsted in the desert, and I have thirsted in the city: the springs of the former were dry; the water in the latter was frozen in the pipes. That is why, to save my life, I had to be an incendiary at times, and at others a footpad. And whether on the streets of knowledge, or in the open courts of love, or in the parks of freedom, or in the cellars and garrets of thought and devotion, the only saki that would give me a drink without the asking was he who called himself Patience.... “And so, the Book of Khalid was written. It is the only one I wrote in this world, having made, as I said, a brief sojourn in its civilised parts.</p>

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

<p>The Book of Khalid is a novel that was written in 1911 by the Arab author Ameen Fares Rihan. He wrote in English and described the perilous journey of immigrants to America. This was the first book to paint a picture of immigration, and also the first to break the barrier between East and West. In telling the story it points out the conflicts between Eastern and Western values and culture and attempts to reconcile them. This edition comes with the original illustrations by his friend and colleague Khalil Gibran, and some think that this book influenced "The Prophet".</p>

The Book of Khalid - Illustrated by Khalil Gibran

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