The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (EPUB)

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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.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I like the quality. Very beautiful book

⭐Purchased this copy as a keepsake for my son. When I am down, I read it 3-4 times and it lifts my spirits.

⭐I found this read in early morning a quieting of the mind. It was an inner calling to the questions we ask in life using analogies in life .Take the words slowly and ponder . It is not a book to rush through.

⭐Everything I feel in my heart and soul was in this book. I sobbed with a full heart. I recommend to everyone, please give this to the people you know.

⭐If you enjoyed The Alchemist, you’d find this as a drink in the desert. I paused at many a verse, thinking if there was more than what I had just read. Some parts I had to highlight, others I had to share. And more I’ll need to discuss and grapple on my own or with fellow readers. This is one that warrants a second, third, and life reading.

⭐Really stunning harcover. More beautiful than pics. Such a reasonable price too. Very happy with it.

⭐Many decades ago, I read this book. In my present reading, I found once again the beauty and wisdom of the poet’s words.

⭐This book just entered the public domain here in the United States and I heard good things about it so I thought I order a copy to celebrate Public Domain Day and introduce myself to this classic work of literature. This is a nice, sturdy hardcover edition from Penguin Classics with blue gilding on the pages and a sweet forward by Rupi Kaur who herself was inspired by the book growing up.With the first page, I was hooked and read the whole way through. The language is so elegant and rhythmic, and the lessons being taught are quite profound, for example the section on “Crime and Punishment” and how it speaks about citizens viewing criminals as “strangers” when they themselves have the same propensity to committing similar acts really stood out to me upon my first reading.Even though it’s a very short book (about 100 pages long), it is so dense with imagery that it could take multiple re-readings in order to grasp every detail and inner truth being written. I plan to revisit this book every now and again in order to do so and it would serve as a nice companion for my life’s journey. I highly recommend this to everyone.

⭐As so often I find myself in a minority that cannot understand the gushing praise that most people give this little book.There language is poetic and some of the images it inspires are beautiful, and there are some useful insights but I find many of the ideas expressed to be trite, false, or exactly what a controlling elite would like the masses to believe … and that is when the ideas are not abominable or repulsive as, for example, in this passage:”The murdered is not unaccountable for his own murder, And the robbed is not blameless in being robbed. The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked, And the white-handed is not clean in the doings of the felon. Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured, And still more often the condemned is the burden bearer for the guiltless and unblamed. You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked; For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the white are woven together.”Gibran, Kahlil. The Prophet (p. 23). Kindle Edition.I am sorry, but I cannot accept that, and I hope most readers of “The Prophet” will agree with me.So I award five stars for the quality of writing and one star for the world view and system of morality with which the writing is imbued.

⭐When you speak in silence, ensure you do it loudly through the voice of the many, drinking from the river of life and the eyes of owls with the sincerity of the heart of the great oak tree and it’s children.When you humbly need to express your wisdom and profundity, Do not do so carefully and subtly.Rather, tell of a character in a fictional land repeatedly asked about a variety of topics you want to talk about. Only through them should you answer without accusations of pomposity.When you speak of love so eloquently andbeautifully initially, ensure you thereafter completely and absolutely undermine the only coherent and relatable insights you offer.When you depart from kind hospitality, do not forget to appreciate your own intelligence and depth on your way, also saying ‘cheers for that, see you soon yeah’.

⭐the book was perfect just didn’t like the voice i downloaded Amazon recommended, I found the voice on my kindle was far superior and loved listening to the book, This book is one of my favourites, I love the way Gibran uses his words in an almost poetic way yet soulfully meaningful to the reader like he’s talking to you personally, many lesson’s of life discussed and learned, It is in my mind a must read or listen too .Its a Must Have in your collection, Its what I call a lifer, One of thos books you keep for life, Enjoy

⭐This is my favourite book to gift people . so when I saw this beautiful jacket I went for it. However the poor quality paper inside did not do justice to the print format or Gibran’s beautiful illustrations.

⭐I was enchanted by this edition of The Prophet and ordered 2 more copies for gifts.It is exquisite and looks like a first edition, with beautiful hardback cover and design. The pages are edged in a blue metallic that gives the effect of light entering the book as one flicks through it. If any book deserves to be lit from within it is this.

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