by Kahlil Gibran
Based on a Promethean man’s exile to an island, The Prophet evoked the journey of the banished man called Al Mustafa, or the Chosen One. In her diary, an admirer recounted Gibran’s musings about the book, which he later called ‘the first book in my career-–my first real book, my ripened fruit." Soon Gibran added to the work the title of the Commonwealth, a separate work he had attached to the story of Al Mustafa....
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