ABOUT THE AUTHOR Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist and Lebanese nationalist. He was born on January 6, 1883, in Bsharri, Lebanon, which at the time was part of Syria and part of the Ottoman Empire. He was the youngest son of Khalil Sa’dJubran, a tax collector eventually imprisoned for embezzlement, and Kamila Jubran, whose father was a clergyman in the Maronite Christian Church. In 1885, Gibran emigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States, where they settled in the large Syrian and Lebanese community in Boston, Massachusetts. It was there that Gibran learned English and enrolled in art classes. In 1904, Gibran began publishing articles in an Arabic-language newspaper and also had his first public exhibit of his drawings. He was active in a New York-based Arab-American literary group called the Pen League, whose members promoted writing in Arabic and English. Throughout his life, he published books, which ruminate on love, longingand religious themes.
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ABOUT THE BOOK Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time.Thebookis a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics such as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying andselling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, and religion. The book is Gibran's best-known work which has the following salient features: It has a way of speaking to people at different stages in their lives. It has this magical quality, the more you read it the more you come to understand the words. With twelve full-page drawings by Gibran, this beautiful work makes an incredible gift for anyone seeking enlightenment and inspiration. Each essay of this book reveals deep insights into the impulses of the human heart and mind.
