The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in
1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil
Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign
city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry
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 dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and
drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, 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.