书名：The Prophet先知
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数990L
作者：Kahlil Gibran
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2002
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141187013
商品尺寸：12.7 x 0.6 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：128 （以实物为准）
The Prophet《先知》为黎巴嫩诗人哈里利·纪伯伦的代表作品，以英文诗体构成。书中借由主人翁先知阿穆斯塔法之口，阐述人生哲理，包括爱、自由、孩子、法律、善恶等26个主题。本书被称为“东方赠送给西方很好的礼物”。

本版本为Penguin Classics推出的英文版，由英国古典学者、作家Robin Waterfield作序，书中另配有纪伯伦亲自绘制的插图。
A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robin Waterfield.
First published in the 1920's, The Prophet is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century, and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran's Prophet speaks of many things central to daily life: love, marriage, death, beauty, passion, eating, work and play. The spiritual message he imparts, of finding divinity through love, blends eastern mysticism, religious faith and philosophy with simple advice. The Prophet became the bible of 1960s culture and was credited with founding the New Age movement, yet it still continues to inspire people around the world today. This edition is illustrated with Gibran's famous visionary paintings.

Review
'His work goes on from generation to generation'--Daily Mail

'To read it was to transcend ordinary levels of perception, to become aware... of a more intense level of being'--Independent
清晨，带着一颗雀跃的心醒来，感谢又一个充满爱的日子；午休，沉思爱的心旷神怡；黄昏，带着感激之情回家；睡前，为你心中的挚爱祈祷，唇间吟诵着赞美诗。在你独居的岁月中，你观察过我们的生活；在你不眠的时刻，你倾听过我们梦中的哭泣与欢笑。因此，请让我们有自知之明，告诉我们，你所知道的生与死之间的一切。

在The Prophet《先知》中，智者回答了人们提出的爱，婚姻，孩子，施予，饮食，工作，欢乐与悲哀，居室，衣服，买卖，罪与罚，法律，自由，理性与热情，苦痛，自知，教授，友谊，谈话，时光，善恶，祈祷，美，宗教，死，逸乐等26个方面的问题。这些问题涉及到人生及社会的各个方面，是一个饱经沧桑、历尽人间坎坷的过来人的经验之谈，作者用诗一般优美的语言，反复比喻的手法，讲述了许多平易近人而又合情合理的道理，耐人寻味。
纪伯伦（1883-1931），美籍黎巴嫩阿拉伯诗人、作家、画家。一生饱经颠沛流离之苦，作品多以“爱”和“美”为主题，是阿拉伯现代小说、艺术和散文的主要奠基人，20世纪阿拉伯新文学道路的开拓者之一。他被誉为“黎巴嫩的骄子”、“20世纪的布莱克”，是与泰戈尔并肩的近代东方文学大师。

Kahlil Gibranwas among the most important Arabic language authors of the early twentieth century. Born in 1883 in Lebanon, he spent the last twenty years of his life (to 1931) in the United States. He is the author of numerous volumes, the most famous of which is THE PROHPET, translated into over twenty languages.
ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return to bear him back to the isle of his birth.
And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls, and looked seaward; and he beheld his ship coming with the mist.
Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.
But as he descended the hill, a sadness came upon him, and he thought in his heart:
How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?
Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache.
It is not a garment I cast oil this day, hut a skin that I tear with m own hands.
Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, hut a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.
Yet I cannot tarry longer.
The sea that calls all things unto her calls me and I must embark.
For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.
Fain would I take with mc all that is here. Hut how shall I?
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether.
And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.