In this inspirational, allegorical guide, Simply the prophet delivers spiritual yet practical homilies on the work of a life: beauty, truth, possessions, sorrow, joy, death and many more. Translated into more than fifty of languages and among the best-selling books of all time, The Prophet remains a wise and revitalising handbook for the soul.>
Poet, artist and mystic Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece, The Prophet, a book of poetic essays written in his youth, has sold over eight million copies in more than twenty languages since its first publication in 1923. But all Gibran's works - essays, stories, parables, prose poems - are imbued with equally powerful simplicity and wisdom, whether meditating upon love, marriage, friendship, work, pleasure, time or grief. Perhaps no other twentieth-century writer has touched the hearts and minds of so remarkably varied and widespread a readership.Included in this volume are The Madman, The Forerunner, The Prophet, Sand and Foam, Jesus the Son of Man, Earth Gods, The Wanderer, The Garden of the Prophet, Prose Poems, Spirits Rebellious, Nymphs of the Valley and A Tear and a Smile.
Le jardin du prophète est la suite inachevée du prophète.
Gibran voulait y définir la relation de l'homme avec la nature, après celle de l'homme avec son prochain dans le prophète.
"The Prophet", first published in 1923, is the story of a seer and his wisdom. This book presents "The Prophet and The Garden" of the Prophet, together with selections from the writer's other timeless philosophical and spiritual writings.
The original self-help book: bestselling The Prophet takes the reader on an unparalleled spiritual and philosophical journey The time has come for the revered Prophet to leave Orphalese. Before he departs, people gather around him and ask him to speak his wisdom. Divided into twenty-eight chapters covering sprawling topics such as love, marriage, children and friendship, The Prophet forms a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual and inspirational. The book was an instant bestseller on publication in 1923 and since then has been translated into more than 50 languages.
'Book of a lifetime...I have loved many books over the years, but the one I would never be parted from and read again and again is The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran' Independent
Never out of print since its first publication in 1923, Kahlil Gibran's collection of prose poems is one of the best-loved volumes in world literature. Gibran's transcendent verse cycle follows the prophet Almustafa as he boards a ship bearing him homeward and discusses life, love, and all aspects of the human condition with his fellow travelers.
First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death.
