The book written by Lebanese-American poet and writer Gibran Khalil Gibran, consisting of 26 prose poems written in English. It was published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. "The Prophet", the most famous writer's work, translated for more than 40 different languages and never stopped to be published. “The Prophet” of Almustafa, who lived in the city of Orfalese, foreign to him, is 12 years old and he's going to board a ship that takes him home. He was stopped by a group of local residents who ask him questions on some philosophical topics. The book is divided into chapters on the main character thoughts about love, marriage, children, giving, food and drink, work, joy and sadness, homes, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, doctrine, friendship, speech, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion and death.
