The best known and best loved of Kahlil Gibran's many writings, The Prophet was first published in 1923 and since then has been translated and read around the world. Gibran lets his protagonist, identified simply as the Prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life—love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death—providing the reader with a guide to living, inspired largely by the deepest spiritual impulses of mankind's heart and mind. .
The best known and best loved of Kahlil Gibran's many writings, The Prophet was first published in 1923 and since then has been translated and read around the world. Gibran lets his protagonist, identified simply as the Prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life—love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death—providing the reader with a guide to living, inspired largely by the deepest spiritual impulses of mankind's heart and mind. .
General Note
This edition is presented in the style of traditional Chinese bookbinding; the pages are folded rather than trimmed, and laced together at the spine with yellow cord.
