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Title: The Prophet

Author: Kahlil Gibran

Release Date: January 1, 2019 [EBook #58585]

Language: English

Character set encoding: UTF-8

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A stunning new hardcover edition--with a full linen case, copper stamping, gilded edges, and colored endpapers--of one of the world's most beloved and popular spiritual classics, featuring a new foreword by Rupi Kaur, the multimillion-copy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers

"This book cracked my heart wide open. And I think it's going to do the same to yours." --Rupi Kaur, from the Foreword

The most famous work of spiritual fiction of the twentieth century, The Prophet is rooted in Kahlil Gibran's own experience as an immigrant and provides inspiration to anyone feeling adrift in a world in flux. As a prophet named Almustafa is about to board a ship to travel back to his homeland after twelve years in exile, he is stopped by a group of people who ask him to share his wisdom before he leaves. In twenty-eight poetic essays, he does so, offering profound and timeless insights on many aspects of life, including love, pain, friendship, family, beauty, religion, joy, sorrow, and death.

An immediate success when first published in 1923, The Prophet is a modern classic, having been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than ten million copies in the United States alone. The message it imparts, of finding divinity through love, made it the bible of 1960s culture and continues to touch hearts and minds across generations and national borders. This edition is illustrated with twelve of Gibran's famous visionary paintings and features a foreword by Rupi Kaur.


In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.


For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

An early collection of Kahlil Gibran's writings showcases the many styles of this prolific thinker, all profoundly beautiful Kahlil Gibran reveals his vision of the soul and understanding of the world-past, present, and future-in this rich sampling of more than twenty works. Prose tales, fables, and poems evoke the mystic East and form a world at once powerful, tender, joyous, and melancholy. This collection, penned when Gibran was still a young writer, reveals many of the themes and styles plumbed throughout his life, including his lifelong struggle against injustice in "The Crucified," his heart-wrenching lament for a Lebanon shackled by tradition and politics in "My Countrymen," and his masterful use of symbolism and simile in "The Secrets of the Heart." A writer with infinite abilities and an eye to the immortal, Gibran continually seeks true beauty no matter the form.

Contains 56 parables, stories, and poems in Gibran's wholly inimitable manner. Illustrated with 4 of his own paintings and drawings, it is the most important edition to the canon of this great writer.

《先知》一書被譽為東方贈送給西方最好的禮物
一部洗滌無數人心靈的生命之詩
傳奇詩人紀伯倫的代表作品，28篇關於人生的思索與哲理
譯為二十多種文字在世界各地出版，先知一書銷售在美國已超過九百萬冊，紀伯倫也成為繼莎士比亞與老子後第三暢銷的詩人，本書為中英文對照版，便於讀者閱讀時對照參考。
並針對各篇主題搭配二十八幅詩意繪圖！
紀伯倫對於愛、婚姻、孩子、施予、飲食、工作、歡喜與悲傷、房子、衣服、買賣、罪與罰、法律、自由、動機與感性、痛苦、自知、教學、友情、言談、時間、善惡、祈禱、喜樂、美、宗教、死亡等人生各方面的提問所做的回答。
全書使用精練優美的散文詩創作。紀伯倫藉由不同身分、職業的人的提問與智者的回答。提出人在一生中會碰到各種課題，這些課題包含各個方面，是紀伯倫自己對於人生的思索，並藉由智者的回答，闡述紀伯倫心中對生命的熱愛與人生的永恆哲理。

Stories, parables, essays; the major body of work from one of the best loved authors.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese American of Assyrian descent, an artist, poet and writer. He was born Gibran Khalil Gibran in Lebanon (at the time a Syrian Province of the Ottoman Empire) and spent much of his productive life in the United States. While most of Gibran's early writings were in Syriac and Arabic, most of his work published after 1918 was in English. Gibran also took part in the New York Pen League, also known as the "immigrant poets" (al-mahjar), alongside other important Lebanese American authors such as Ameen Rihani ("the father of Lebanese American literature"), Mikhail Naimy and Elia Abu Madi. Gibran's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of 26 poetic essays, first written in English in 1923. The Prophet remains famous to this day, having been translated into more than 20 languages. Other works in English include: Spirits Rebellious, (1908), The Broken Wings (1912), A Tear and a Smile (1914), The Forerunner (1920), Sand and Foam (1926), Jesus the Son of Man (1928), The Earth Gods (1929), The Wanderer (1932) and The Garden of the Prophet (1933).

A book of aphorisms, poems, and parables by the author of "The Prophet" - a philosopher at his window commenting on the scene passing below.

1923. This book by Gibran, poet, philosopher, and artist is his masterpiece and has become one of the beloved classics of our time. Written in parables reminiscent of the Bible, Gibran's famous inspirational book is a brilliant man's philosophy on love, marriage, joy and sorrow, time, friendship and much more.

In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have. --Brian Bruya