The Prophet (book)
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The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-born American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa, who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years, is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing 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. One of Gibran's best known works, he followed it with Garden of Prophet, and was due to produce a third part when he died.
The book's popularity among adherents of 1960s counterculture inspired a parody, The Profit by "Kehlog Albran", which furnished a number of quotations for the Unix fortune program.
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- 1960s The Profit by Kehlog Albran, a parody book. The title contains two puns; one relating to Kellogg's All-Bran breakfast cereal.
- 1974 The Prophet / Kahlil Gibran: A Musical Interpretation featuring Richard Harris. Music composed by Arif Mardin, Atlantic Records
