Gibran, K: Prophet

Hardback – 31 dec 2021

A book of twenty-six poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as 'the Bard of Washington Street.
Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

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Gibran Khalil Gibran, commonly written Kahlil Gibran in English, was born in Bcharri, in what would become Lebanon, a small city in the mountains. His family was poor and Gibran moved to Boston with his mother when he was twelve years old. He enrolled in art school, and both painted and wrote. His first published works were drawings, used for book covers, in 1898. He published "The Prophet" in 1923 and he slowly become well-known as a writer. He died on April 10, 1931, in New York City.