Books with title Follow The Prophet

Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward; and he beheld his ship coming with the mist.Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.

Exquisitely produced with a traditional Chinese binding, this edition of The Prophet will be cherished by all fans of Gibran’s spiritual and wise guide to life. Love, marriage, children, work, joy, sorrow, friendship, freedom, pain, passion: those are just some of the topics Kahlil Gibran ponders in his modern classic, The Prophet. Written in English and first published in 1923, the book gradually became a global bestseller. Shaped around the story of a prophet leaving his country of exile, the text consists of a series of short discussions on what really matters most in life. Its simple but beautiful prose offers solace and guidance, and resonates in our hearts and minds.

2019 Reprint of 1926 London Edition. Illustrated by the author. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Gibran [1887-1931] was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, a series of philosophical essays written in English prose. The Prophet is 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 as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.An early example of Inspirational fiction, the book sold well despite a cool critical reception, and became extremely popular in the 1960s counterculture. It has never gone out of print since it was first published in 1923. Having been translated into more than forty languages, it was one of the bestselling books of the twentieth century in the United States. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.Contents: The coming of the ship -- On love -- On marriage -- On children -- On giving -- On eating and drinking -- On work -- On joy and sorrow -- On houses -- On clothes -- On buying and selling -- On crime and punishment -- On laws -- On freedom -- On reason and passion -- On pain -- On self-knowledge -- On teaching -- On friendship -- On talking -- On time -- On good and evil -- On prayer -- On pleasure -- On beauty -- On religion -- On death -- The farewell.