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"The Prophet is a collection of twenty-eight poetic essays that contain powerful words of wisdom on topics including love, marriage, children, friendship, joy and sorrow, death, religion, and beauty. Philosophical, spiritual, and above all inspirational, each chapter reveals deep insights into the i...

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Main Author: Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.
Edition:First Vintage Books Edition.
Subjects:
Prose poems, American.
Mysticism > Poetry.
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Summary:"The Prophet is a collection of twenty-eight poetic essays that contain powerful words of wisdom on topics including love, marriage, children, friendship, joy and sorrow, death, religion, and beauty. Philosophical, spiritual, and above all inspirational, each chapter reveals deep insights into the impulses of the human heart and mind."--Back cover.
Item Description:"Featuring twelve full-page drawings by Kahlil Gibran"--page 4 of Cover.
Physical Description:viii, 101 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781101970782 (paperback)
1101970782 (paperback)
Author Notes:Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 in Lebanon and died in New York in 1931. His family emigrated to the United States in 1895. In his early teens, the artistry of Gibran's drawings caught the eye of his teachers and he was introduced to the avant-garde Boston artist, photographer, and publisher Fred Holland Day, who encouraged and supported Gibran in his creative endeavors. A publisher used some of Gibran's drawings for book covers in 1898, and Gibran held his first art exhibition in 1904 in Boston. In 1908, Gibran went to study art with Auguste Rodin in Paris for two years. He later studied art in Boston. While most of Gibran's early writing was in Arabic, most of his work published after 1918 was in English. Gibran's best-known work is "The Prophet, "a book composed of 26 poetic essays.

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