Best Seller but I don't know why! (The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran)

Member Name: janharper

Product:	The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Date:	27/01/01 (78 review reads)
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Advantages: Flowery and sometimes beautiful language

Disadvantages: short with no story

The lebanese writer Kahlil Gibran wrote this short book in 1923. The Prophet is just a collection of short sermons delivered by the 'Chosen One'.

'The Chosen One' has been exiled for 12 years and on the eve of his return to his native land he is asked by the seeress to speak to the people. He delivers a series of twenty six short sermons about love, and the mysteries of life including drinking and eating. At the end of the book promises to return.

This short book has sold over ten million copies and been translated into ten different languages. I couldn't see why it is so popular except perhaps for its artistic merit. The language is flowery and poetic but there is no real story running through the book.

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