title: The Prophet
author:  Kahlil Gibran 
description: The timeless masterpiece remains one of the best loved books of all time. Its inspirational message of love and hope is universal and as relevent today as in 1923.
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  KAHLIL GIBRAN
  Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet and
  many other famous works,
  is known
  throughout the world as the Immortal
  Prophet of Lebanon and the Savant of His
  Age.
  This new, enlarged volume contains much
  of Gibran's magnificent poetry and various
  prose pieces which he wrote when scarcely
  twenty years old. Translated superbly into
  English from
  his beloved mother tongue,
  Arabic,
  these timeless writings
  reveal
  his
  remarkably mature grasp of a subject which
  has
  challenged
  philosophers
  throughout
  history until today—man's destiny and the
  meaning of his existence.
  In
  this volume
  also
  is Gibran's heralded
  story, The Bride's Bed, a strange, gripping
  tale that is both a plea for individual liberty
  and an expression of his bitter condemna-
  tion of pre-arranged marriages of children
  by their parents. It is widely recognized that
  Gibran, through the razor-sharp attacks in
  this story and others like it, was re