The writings of Kahlil Gibran are treasured by millions the world over for their insight, passion and timeless spiritual vision. Kahlil Gibran: The Spirit is a series of important new translations from the poet-philosopher’s Arabic writings. The Storm is a collection of fourteen short stories and prose-poems exhibiting several characteristic Gibran themes: society’s injustice towards the poor and the weak, the destruction of nature and the purity and innocence of young love and its perversion and destruction by society.