The Prophet (Annotated)

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is a lyrical sequence of twenty-six prose poems framed by the departure of Almustafa, a sage who, before leaving the city of Orphalese, answers the people's questions on love, work, freedom, sorrow, joy, death, and other conditions of human life. Blending biblical cadence, Sufi and Christian mysticism, Romantic inwardness, and aphoristic clarity, the book occupies a dis...