One of the most beloved spiritual classics of our time Gibran's masterpiece The Prophet has
sold millions of copies in more than forty languages since it was first published in 1923. The
Prophet contains powerful words of wisdom on such essential subjects as marriage children
friendship work and pleasure-words that readers from around the world have found
inspirational and life-changing. A poet artist and mystic Gibran was born to a poor
Christian family in Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an adolescent where he began
studying art. The twenty-eight poetic essays collected in The Prophet are illustrated with
twelve of his full-page drawings. Perhaps no other twentieth-century writer has touched the
hearts and minds of so remarkably varied and widespread a readership.
