Publisher's Synopsis
A new, beautifully laid-out edition of Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran's classic work of prose poetry, containing 26 fables where the titular prophet, Al Mustafa, tells lessons and stories about all aspects of the human condition -- 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. "The Prophet" is work a rare stylistic beauty and depth that has spoken to generations of readers and, since its original publication in English in 1923, it has been translated into over 100 languages and has never been out of print, making it one of the most widely read and beloved works of the 20th century.
