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This book, which is Gibran's masterpiece, has become one of the beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.
Gibran considered 'The Prophet' his greatest achievement. He said: "I think I've never been without 'The Prophet' since I first conceived the book back in Mount Lebanon. It seems to have been part of me...I kept the manuscript four years before I delivered it over to my publisher because I wanted to be sure, I wanted to be very sure, that evey word of it was the very best I had to offer."
The Chicago Post said of 'The Prophet' "Cadenced and vibrant with feeling, the words of Kahlil Gibran bring to one's ears the majestic rhythm of Ecclesiastes. ...If there is a man or a woman who can read this book without a quiet acceptance of a great man's philosophy and a singing in the heart as of music born within, than man or woman is indeed dead to life and truth."
Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, poet, philosopher, and artist, was born in Lebanon, a land that has produced many prophets. The milions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writing in that language consider him the genius of his age. But he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the Near East. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages. His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake. In the United States, which he made his home during the last twenty years of his life, he began to write in English. 'The Prohphet' and his other books of poetry, illustrated with his mystical drawings, are known and loved by innumerable Americans who find in them an expression of the deepest impulses of man's heart and mind.
English, Hardcover edition w/jacket, published by Alfred A. Knopp, Inc., 96 pages including 12 illustrations reproduced from original drawings by the author, 5 1/2in x 8 1/2in. The Arab American National Museum has an original painting by Kahlil Gibran in a permanent exhibit.
Gibran considered 'The Prophet' his greatest achievement. He said: "I think I've never been without 'The Prophet' since I first conceived the book back in Mount Lebanon. It seems to have been part of me...I kept the manuscript four years before I delivered it over to my publisher because I wanted to be sure, I wanted to be very sure, that evey word of it was the very best I had to offer."
The Chicago Post said of 'The Prophet' "Cadenced and vibrant with feeling, the words of Kahlil Gibran bring to one's ears the majestic rhythm of Ecclesiastes. ...If there is a man or a woman who can read this book without a quiet acceptance of a great man's philosophy and a singing in the heart as of music born within, than man or woman is indeed dead to life and truth."
Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, poet, philosopher, and artist, was born in Lebanon, a land that has produced many prophets. The milions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writing in that language consider him the genius of his age. But he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the Near East. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages. His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake. In the United States, which he made his home during the last twenty years of his life, he began to write in English. 'The Prohphet' and his other books of poetry, illustrated with his mystical drawings, are known and loved by innumerable Americans who find in them an expression of the deepest impulses of man's heart and mind.
English, Hardcover edition w/jacket, published by Alfred A. Knopp, Inc., 96 pages including 12 illustrations reproduced from original drawings by the author, 5 1/2in x 8 1/2in. The Arab American National Museum has an original painting by Kahlil Gibran in a permanent exhibit.
