The Prophet E-Book

Kahlil Gibran

• Herausgeber: Publisher s24148
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, The Prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of 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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The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

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Table of Contents

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Chapter 1 The Coming of the Ship

Chapter 2 On Love

Chapter 3 On Marriage

Chapter 4 On Children

Chapter 5 On Giving

Chapter 6 On Eating & Drinking

Chapter 7 On Work

Chapter 8 On Joy & Sorrow

Chapter 9 On Houses

Chapter 10 On Clothes

Chapter 11 On Buying & Selling

Chapter 12 On Crime & Punishment

Chapter 13 On Laws

Chapter 14 On Freedom

Chapter 15 On Reason & Passion

Chapter 16 On Pain

Chapter 17 On Self-Knowledge

Chapter 18 On Teaching

Chapter 19 On Friendship

Chapter 20 On Talking

Chapter 21 On Time

Chapter 22 On Good & Evil

Chapter 23 On Prayer

Chapter 24 On Pleasure

Chapter 25 On Beauty

Chapter 26 On Religion

Chapter 27 On Death

Chapter 28 The Farewell

Chapter1 The Coming of the Ship

ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.