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    The Prophet
    The Prophet
    The Prophet
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    The Prophet

    Written by Kahlil Gibran

    Narrated by Mark Frost

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    Al Mustafa had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for the ship that was to return him to the isle of his birth. On the way to the harbor, he is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition.

    The Prophet is a collection of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran. It is Gibran's best known work and has been translated into over 108 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.   

    The audiobook, narrated by Mark Frost, is divided into chapters that deal 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeffries-Prendergast-Underhill
    Release dateAug 8, 2019
    ISBN9781094211107
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    Kahlil Gibran

    Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and a philosopher best known for his, The Prophet. Born to a Maronite-Christian family in a village occupied by Ottoman rule, Gibran and his family immigrated to the United States in 1895 in search of a better life. Studying art and literature, and inevitably ensconced in the world of political activism as a young man dealing with the ramifications of having to leave his home-land, Gibran hoped to make his living as an artist. With the weight of political and religious upheaval on his shoulders, Gibran's work aimed to inspire a revolution of free though and artistic expression. Gibran's, The Prophet has become one of the best-selling books of all time, leaving behind a legacy of accolades and establishing him as both a literary rebel and hero in his country of Lebanon. Gibran is considered to be the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.

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