The prophet
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Bibliographic Information
The prophet
（Collector's Library）
Collector's Library, 2011
- : hbk
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"The prophet was first published in 1923"--T.p. verso
"Complete & unabridged"--Dust jacket
Includes bibliographical references (p. 18)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. The prophet Al-Mustafa is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
Cover illustration by Khalil Gibran.
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