Translated into more than twenty-five languages, The Prophet, a treasury of counsel on human life, has given uplift and balm to millions around the world. It speaks, among many things, of love, pleasure, children, work and play, giving, possessions, crime, marriage and death - haunting words of wisdom in an all time classic masterpiece.
Author, Kahil Gibran (Jubran Kahlil Jubran, 1883-1931). Lebanese - U.S. Arabic novelist, poet, philosopher and Artist, accompanies the work with his visionary drawings. Gibran studied art with the sculptor Auguste Rodin in Paris and Arabic literature in Beirut before settling in New York City in 1912. A romantic mystic and visionary, he preached love, beauty, freedom and redemption in his works.
Introduction - Kahlil Gibran
Chapter 1 : The Coming of The Ship
Chapter 2 : On Love
Chapter 3 : On Marriage
Chapter 4 : On Children
Chapter 5 : On Giving
Chapter 6 : On Eating and Drinking
Chapter 7 : On Work
Chapter 8 : On Joy and Sorrow
Chapter 9 : On Houses
Chapter 10 : On Clothes
Chapter 11 : On Buying and Selling
Chapter 12 : On Crime and Punishment
Chapter 13 : On Law
Chapter 14 : On Freedom
Chapter 15 : On Reason and Passion
Chapter 16 : On Pain
Chapter 17 : On Self-Knowledge
Chapter 18 : On Teaching
Chapter 19 : On friendship
Chapter 20 : On Talking
Chapter 21 : On Time
Chapter 22 : On Good and Evil
Chapter 23 : On Prayer
Chapter 24 : On Pleasure
Chapter 25 : On Beauty
Chapter 26 : On Religion
Chapter 27 : On Death
Chapter 28 : The Farewell
