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The Prophet
Gibran's masterpiece. Almustafa, who has waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for the ship that will take him home, answers before leaving the questions of the seeress Almitra and the townspeople on twenty-six subjects: love, marriage, children, giving, work, joy and sorrow, freedom, reason and passion, pain, friendship, prayer, beauty, religion and death. Rhythmic prose with biblical resonances, illustrated with twelve drawings by the author. Despite cool reviews it has never gone out of print since 1923 and has been translated into more than a hundred languages.
Authorship note
Written in English by Gibran after years of drafts; Mary Haskell revised the text with him, sentence by sentence, between 1918 and 1923, according to her journals.
Editions and translations
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English
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet (Penguin Classics, prólogo de Rupi Kaur)
The Conscious LibraryThe Prophet (Penguin Classics, prólogo de Rupi Kaur)
Penguin Books, 2019
ISBN 9780241372647
The Prophet
Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
ISBN 9780394404288
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
The Conscious LibraryThe Prophet
Alfred A. Knopf, 1923
Primera edición; texto en Project Gutenberg (n.º 58585).
Français
Kahlil Gibran
Le Prophète
The Conscious Library
Le Prophète
Guy Trédaniel, 1999
ISBN 9782844451156
Español
El profeta / The Prophet (bilingüe)
Vintage Español, 1999
ISBN 9780375701627
Kahlil Gibran
El profeta; El loco; El vagabundo; El jardín del profeta; Arena y espuma
The Conscious LibraryEl profeta; El loco; El vagabundo; El jardín del profeta; Arena y espuma
Valdemar, 2004
ISBN 9788477024637
Kahlil Gibran
El profeta
The Conscious Library
Italiano
Deutsch
Der Prophet
dtv, 2003
ISBN 9783423340670
Other works by Kahlil Gibran
- Music (A Profile of the Art of Music) · 1905
- Nymphs of the Valley · 1906
- Spirits Rebellious · 1908
- The Broken Wings · 1912
- A Tear and a Smile · 1914
- The Madman · 1918
- The Processions · 1919
- Twenty Drawings · 1919
- The Tempests · 1920
- The Forerunner · 1920
- The New and the Marvelous · 1923
- Sand and Foam · 1926
- Jesus, the Son of Man · 1928
- The Earth Gods · 1931
- The Wanderer · 1932
- The Garden of the Prophet · 1933
- Prose Poems · 1934
- A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran · 1951
- Thoughts and Meditations · 1960
- A Self-Portrait · 1959
- Beloved Prophet · 1972
- Lazarus and His Beloved · 1973
- Blue Flame: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah · 1979
Sources
- Project Gutenberg: Gibran, Kahlil, The Prophet (Nueva York: Knopf, 1923), ebook n.º 58585; The Madman (1918), n.º 5616; The Forerunner (1920), n.º 54580.
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