Now Sheba Sings the Song
Maya Angelou
The Inaugural poet, author of *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*, unites with a renowned illustrator for a poetic tribute to the extraordinary essence of ordinary African-American women.
Read Time: ~7 hr
The Prophet
by Dong Daxi bian (1995)
About this book
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.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreThe Prophet Lead Character
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