Book Description

First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death.

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In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Brian Bruya

About Author

Kahlil Gibran, poet, philosopher, and artist was born in Lebanon, in 1883, and received his primary education in Beruit before emigrating with his parents to Boston in 1895. In 1989 he returned to Lebanon to continue his studies in Arabic before returning to Boston in 1903, around which time he met Mart Haskell, who would become his lifelong benefactor. In 1912, he settled in New York City and devoted himself to writing (both in Arabic and English) and to painting. Gibran died in 1931.

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6

哈里利·纪伯伦 Gibran Khalil Gibran，1883年1月6日－1931年4月10日），黎巴嫩诗人，代表作：《泪与笑》、《沙与沫》、《先知》。

纪伯伦出生于黎巴嫩（当时属奥斯曼帝国统治）的一个马龙派天主教家庭。幼年未受正规学校教育。后随家庭移居美国。在美国上学时显露出艺术天赋。"Kahlil"的产生就是因为在美国学校的记录错误。1908年赴巴黎师从罗丹学习艺术。后兴趣转向文学，初期用阿拉伯语，后用英语进行写作。纪伯伦的许多作品都带有基督教色彩。1931年逝世于美国纽约，遗体葬于黎巴嫩。

外界评价：作家冰心将纪伯伦和泰戈尔放在一起评价说：“泰戈尔是贵族出身，家境优越，自幼受过良好教育。他的作品感情充沛，语调明快，用辞华美。格调也更天真，更欢畅，更富神秘色彩。而纪伯伦是贫苦出身，他的作品更像一个饱经沧桑的老人在讲为人处世的哲理，于平静中流露出淡淡的悲凉。” @wiki