Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist and philosopher whose work has touched millions of readers across the world for more than a century. Born in 1883 in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon, Gibran emigrated to the United States as a young man and wrote in both Arabic and English. His most famous work, The Prophet, published in 1923, is a collection of poetic essays on fundamental aspects of human life including love, marriage, children, work, joy, sorrow and death. The Prophet has never been out of print and has been translated into over a hundred languages, making it one of the bestselling books of all time. Gibran's writing blends Eastern and Western philosophical traditions with mystical spirituality and lyrical beauty. He was also an accomplished visual artist whose paintings and drawings have been exhibited internationally. Gibran died in New York in 1931 at the age of forty-eight. This unabridged audiobook collection of The Prophet and other stories allows listeners to experience the timeless beauty of Gibran's prose and poetry through skilled narration.