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The Prophet (book) : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Prophet (book)
''The Prophet'' is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran.〔("Prophet Motive", Joan Acocella ) newyorker.com〕 It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. ''The Prophet'' has been translated into over 40 different languages and has never been out of print.〔(Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet: Why is it so loved? ), BBC News, 12 May 2012, accessed 12 May 2012〕 ==Synopsis== The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as 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.
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