The Prophet - Pocket Classics

A book of twenty-six poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran''s The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran''s best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ''the Bard of Washington Street''.