KAHLIL GIBRAN'S THE MADMAN was first published in 1918. Although written nearly 100 years ago, it remains timely. This is a collection of short parables ranging in length from a single paragraph to a few pages. They are individualist in nature and center around a single soul's dealings with the world around it. Notions of truth and being are communicated in that soul's interactions with God, friends, neighbors, strangers, animals and itself. It is quite possibly the most perfect writing I have ever read. Here, Gibran characterizes one who has done so as a madman - one who has tapped into the vein of Spirit, and appears to others to be 'drunk on God'. Though some pages come across like a bizarre Aesop's fables, it is his 'Madman' character who voices this theme repeatedly throughout.
The contents of the ebook are :
- How I Became A Madman
- God
- My Friend
- The Scarecrow
- The Sleep Walkers
- The Wise Dog
- The Two Hermits
- On Giving And Taking
- The Seven Selves
- War
- The Fox
- The Wise King
- Ambition
- The New Pleasure
- The Other Language
- The Pomegranate
- The Two Cages
- The Three Ants
- The Grave-Digger
- On The Strips Of The Temple
- The Blessed City
- The Good God and the Evil God
- "Defeat"
- Night And The Madman
- Faces
- The Greater Sea
- Crucified
- The Astronomer
- The Great Longing
- Said a Blade of Grass
- The Eye
- The Two Learned Men
- When My Sorrow Was Born
- And When My Joy Was Born
- "The Perfect World"