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The book of Khalid

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. --- Product Description.

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  • "The book of Khalid"@ar
  • "Book of Khalid"
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  • "This long-awaited re-publication of the first Arab-American novel'inspiration for Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet'deals with Arab/American relations, religious conflict and the American immigrant experience. Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, and with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran, The Book of Khalid recounts the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to seek their fortune in turn-of-thecentury New York. Together, they face all the difficulties of poor immigrants'the passage by ship, admittance through Ellis Island and the rough immigrant life. Khalid, always the dreamer, tries to participate in the political and cultural life of the teeming city'to often humiliating and comic result. Tiring of their sojourn, he convinces Shakib they should return to Lebanon. But their heads are now full of New World ideas. And Khalid, trying to improve his brethren, turns his understanding of Western thought into a call for political progress, and religious unity and tolerance in the Arab world. A call that has him, accidentally, almost founding a new religion'and almost becoming its first martyr, when his ideas incite the faithful to riot. Playing with classical Arabic literary forms, as well as Western literary conventions, Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid is a unique contribution to American and World literature. From the Trade Paperback edition."
  • "Recounts the experiences of two young men from Lebanon who move to New York in the early twentieth century."
  • "The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. --- Product Description."@en

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  • "Popular literature"
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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Autobiographical fiction"@en
  • "Autobiographical fiction"
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  • "Erzählende Literatur"
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  • "كتاب خالد رواية فلسفية اجتماعية"
  • "Kitāb Khālid : awwal riwāyah ʻArabīyah taṣdur bi-al-lughah al-Inklīzīyah sanah 1911"
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  • "The book of Khalid"
  • "كتاب خالد اول رواية عربية تصدر باللغة الانكليزية سنة 1911"
  • "The Book of Khalid"
  • "The Book of Khalid"@en
  • "كتاب خالد : اول رواية عربية تصدر باللغة الانكليزية سنة 1911"
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  • "Kitāb Khālid : awwal riwāyah ʻArabīyah tuṣdar bi-al-lughah al-inklīzīyah sanat 1911"
  • "كتاب خالد : رواية فلسفية اجتماعية"
  • "Kitāb Khālid riwāyah falsafīyah ijtimāʻīyah"
  • "Kitāb Khālid : riwāyah falsafīyah ijtimāʻīyah"

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