"Cadenced and vibrant with feeling, the words of Kahlil Gibran bring to one's ears
the majestic rhythm of Ecclesiastes.If there is a man or woman who can read this book without
a quiet acceptance of a great man's philosophy and a singing in the heart as if music were born
within, that man or woman is indeed dead to life and truth."Chicago Post

In this collection of works by mystical poet Kahlil Gibran, the human soul is presented as essentially
noble and good.

Published in 1923, The Prophet was a best-seller and has been translated into more than twenty
languages. A series of twenty-eight related prose poems, the book begins with a discourse on love and
then turns to everyday concerns and to such higher matters as good and evil, religion, and death.

In The Forerunner, published in 1920, Gibran makes clear that we are masters of our own destiny
and not the toys of a blind fate. Finally, The Madman, published in 1918, asserts that we tend to
be what society expects from us, even when these expectations might be detrimental to the development
of our self-identity.