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Prophet (version 5)

by Kahlil Gibran

Chapter 1 of 2 Part 1

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Running time
1 h 31 min
Language
English
Read by
Ruth Golding

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About this recording

The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.

The poetic prose of The Prophet has delighted readers for generations, and the book became particularly popular in the 1960s. Al-Mustafa the prophet, who has lived abroad for many years, is about to board a ship home when he is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses many aspects of life and the human condition, including love, children, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge and death.

- Summary by Ruth Golding and Wikipedia

This recording was originally published on Legamus.eu and was later released on Librivox when US copyright permitted.

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