Spirit Brides is classic Gibran: three short stories that depict life in late nineteenth-century northern Lebanon and serve as Gibran's vehicle for discussing religious and ethical themes. Juan Cole's stunning and lyric translation revives Gibran's passionate stories of spiritual transcendence through love and suffering.

Review from Whole Life Times:

THE THREE TALES represent some of Gibran's earliest published works and faithfully reproduce the author's lyrical and dramatic style. These tales are exquisitely wrought works of art that serve to illustrate the ills, joys, and sorrows common to all human societies. Featuring Gibran's own drawings, many suffused with a surreal quality, the book captures brilliantly the poetic and the realist that co-existed in the author.