The Prophet [Special Edition] [Hardcover]

A timeless masterpiece - the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil Gibran's works. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

One of America's most purchased and beloved books. An excellent gift for people of any age, full of wisdom and simple poetry, addressing twenty seven topics of our daily lives. Elegant paper back edition, enhanced by drawings of the renowned Aubrey Beardsley. An evergreen bestseller.

The Prophet is known and loved by readers all over the world. It is a wise and warm testimony to life, whose wisdom speaks to us all. This beautiful edition of Kahlil Gibran's timeless classic is illustrated with the author's own mystical drawings. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

A timeless masterpiece - the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil Gibran's works --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The Prophet, a bestseller around the world and translated into over twenty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil Gibran's many writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and death, and conveys the yearning for a Unity of Being that can only be achieved through love.

Illustrated with his own enchanting and mystical drawings, The Prophet is a masterpiece, indeed perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the Twentieth Century, and a wonderful companion for anybody embarking on their own spiritual journey.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

But if you love and must needs have desires,

let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings

its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding

of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give

thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's

ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved

in you heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Kahlil Gibran's early years were spent in the breathtakingly beautiful countryside of his native Lebanon, so different from the polluting forces of the Boston ghettos to which he emigrated with his family in 1895, at the age of twelve. Following a period of study in Paris, Gibran moved to New York, and it was here that he was to compose his most famous book, the universally acclaimed The Prophet. He died in New York in 1931, at the age of forty-eight. His admirers are estimated to number five million in the US alone.