<Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> The Garden of the Prophet </Td> </Tr> <P> The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese - American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran . It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf . It is Gibran's best known work . The Prophet has been translated into over 40 different languages and has never been out of print . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> The Prophet has been translated into well over 40 languages . By 2012, it had sold more than nine million copies in its American edition alone since its original publication in 1923 . </P>

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