Book description
First published in the 1920's, THE PROPHET an inspirational,
allegorical guide to living, the book is perhaps the most famous work of
religious fiction of the Twentieth Century and has sold millions of
copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran'sprotagonist, called simply
'the Prophet', delivers spiritual, yet practical, homilies on a wide
variety of topics central to daily life: love, marriage and children;
work and play; possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow, death and
many many more. Kahlil Gibran was among the most important Arabic
language authors of the early twentieth century. Born in 1883 in
Lebanon, he spent the last twenty years of his life (to 1931) in the
United States. He is the author of numerous volumes, the most famous of
which is THE PROHPET, translated into over twenty languages.
