The Prophet

a book

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran · 2003 · 128 pages

Gibran's protagonist, called 'the Prophet', delivers spiritual, yet practical, homilies on a wide variety of topics central to daily life: love, marriage and children; work and play; possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow, death and more.

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