Sand and Foam
by Kahlil Gibran | 
The Voice of the Master
by Kahlil Gibran | 
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot | 
The Eye of the Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran |
The Broken Wings
by Kahlil Gibran |
Thoughts and Meditations
by Kahlil Gibran | 
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman | 
The Essential Rumi
by Jalal al-Din Rumi | 
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
by Saadi | 
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
by John Donne |
The Enlightened Heart
by Stephen Mitchell | 
The Beloved
by Kahlil Gibran | 
Spirits in Bondage
by C. S. Lewis | 
An Essay on Man
by Alexander Pope | 
Tears and Laughter
by Kahlil Gibran | 
The epic of Gilgamesh
by Anonymous | 
Eros the Bittersweet
by Anne Carson |
God's Trombones
by James Weldon Johnson | 
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
by Matsuo Basho | 
Theogony
by Hesiod |
The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of 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.