The Prophet

A poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece, The Prophet, is a book of twenty-six poetic essays that he began developing while still a youth in Lebanon. It has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages since its publication in 1923. All of Gibran's works, which include stories, parables, and prose poems, contain powerful words of wisdom on such essential subjects as marriage, children, friendship, work, and pleasure--words that readers from many different backgrounds have found life-changing. Perhaps no other twentieth-century writer has touched the hearts and minds of so remarkably varied and widespread a readership.