The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
The prophet Almustaph, who has lived in the foreign city of Orphales for 12 years, will board a ship that will take him home. He is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters on love, marriage, children, giving, food and drunkenness, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothing, trading, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, work, friendship, speech, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion and death.
