The Prophet

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love marriage children giving eating and drinking work joy and sorrow houses clothes buying and selling crime and punishment laws freedom reason and passion pain self-knowledge teaching friendship talking time good and evil prayer pleasure beauty religion and death.