The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the 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. Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies. This book has a way of speaking to people at differentstages in their lives. It has this magical quality, the more.