The Prophet

The Prophet is Kahlil Gibran's most beloved work: a slender book of prose poetry that has never been out of print since its publication in 1923. Almustafa, a prophet who has lived twelve years in the foreign city of Orphalese, is about to board the ship that will carry him home when the people gather to ask him to share his wisdom before he goes.

In twenty-six poetic sermons, Almustafa speaks on the great matters of a human life — love and marriage, children and giving, work and joy and sorrow, freedom, reason and passion, friendship, time, good and evil, prayer, and death. His counsel is gentle, paradoxical, and quietly radical, urging readers toward a life of openness, self-knowledge, and spiritual courage.

Translated into more than a hundred languages, The Prophet is a touchstone of modern spiritual literature — a book people return to across weddings, funerals, and every threshold in between.