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The Prophet
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Key facts
- Author
- Kahlil Gibran
- Cover artist
- Kahlil Gibran
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Life and the human condition
- Genre
- Prose poetry
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Publication place
- United States
- Media type
- Book
- Followed by
- The Garden of the Prophet
- Text
- The Prophet at Wikisource
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Kahlil Gibran
- Genre
- prose poetry
- Country of origin
- United States
- Depicts
- Kahlil Gibran
- Image
- The Prophet (Gibran).jpg
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- publication date
- 1923-01-01
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- The Prophet
- copyright status
- public domain
- Commons category
- The Prophet (book)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best-known work. The Kahlil Gibran Collective says that The Prophet has been translated into over 100 languages, and is one of the best selling books of all time. It has never been out of print.
Synopsis
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Prophet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.