Kahlil Gibran's writings on love and marriage are captured in exquisite prose and poetry translations. The Beloved brings together essential writings on the ways of the heart. This book makes the perfect gift for lovers and newlyweds.

Review from Publishers' Weekly:

LYRICAL AND DYNAMIC, free of the rhetorical flourishes common in traditional Middle Eastern literature, Kahlil Gibran's early short stories, prose poems, and vignettes--all written in Arabic--made a profound impact on his fellow immigrants in America and on his fellow writers in his native region long before The Prophet made him a best-selling English author in 1923. Now White Cloud Press has launched a series of contemporary translations--designed to replace the generally inaccurate ones issued after his death in 1931--of Gibran's most significant work.

An Excerpt from The Beloved:

DO YOU REMEMBER the nights we were together, haloed in the rays of your soul, and the angels of love circled about us singing anthems of the spirit's deeds? Do you remember the days we sat shadowed by branches? They covered us like a tent to veil us from men as ribs conceal the secrets of the saintly heart. Do you remember the paths and hills we walked together, your fingers entwined in mine like the twining of your hair? Our heads leaned upon each other as though we would protect ourselves from ourselves. Do you remember the hour when I came to bid you farewell? You embraced me, then kissed me. You gave me the kiss of Mary, and I knew that joined lips bear divine secrets that the tongue cannot know. . .