TY - BOOK AU - Gibran,Kahlil AU - Baker,Christine TI - The prophet SN - 1853264857 PY - 1996/// CY - Hertfordshire [England] PB - Wordsworth Editions Limited KW - Prose poems, American KW - Mysticism KW - Poetry N2 - First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death ER -