Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved spiritual classics of our time. It has sold millions of copies in more than forty languages since it was first published in 1923.

The Prophet contains powerful words of wisdom on such essential subjects as marriage, children, friendship, work, and pleasure—words that readers from around the world have found inspirational and life-changing. A poet, artist, and mystic, Gibran was born to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an adolescent, where he began studying art. The twenty-eight poetic essays collected inThe Prophet are illustrated with twelve of his full-page drawings. Perhaps no other twentieth-century writer has touched the hearts and minds of so remarkably varied and widespread a readership.

Ever since his best-selling book The Prophet was first published in 1923, Kahlil Gibran has been enchanting spiritually inclined readers with his dogma-free writings so rich with insight, wisdom, beauty, and truth. In this companion collection of little-known writings taken from his published works in Arabic, Gibran encourages us to bravely face life's hardships, and to continuously cultivate a rich inner life to set our moral compasses by.

In Visions of the Prophet, Gibran's narrator wrestles with the hypocrisies of Christianity ('Mad John,' 'The Man on the Cross') and challenges hypocrisy ('Kahlil the Ungodly'). He questions how children born of corrupt marriages and living in poverty can ever become soulful creatures ('The Sister Soul,' 'The Woman of Tomorrow') and urges us to develop our souls ('Solitude and Isolation'). The one-act dramatic play 'The Many-Columned City of Iram' shows a Sufi master, a female sage, and a seeker having a heartfelt discussion about the natures of faith and reality.

Containing some of his most intellectually challenging work, Visions of the Prophet reveals a Gibran more vehement and vulnerable than in previous publications.

A bestseller around the world and translated into more than 20 languages, this timeless masterpiece is presented in a small, elegant gift edition

Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, the best-loved of Kahlil Gibran's many writings 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, this is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the 20th century, a necessity for fans of The Secret and The Alchemist, and a wonderful companion for anybody embarking on their own spiritual journey.