One of my good friend suggested that the following book has been inspirational to her.
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
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I have had the chance to read this book many years ago and had enjoyed it. This is probably the best known work of Khalil Gibran. A collection of 26 poetic essays on various topics. A great book.
I am privileged to have a Gujarati translation of this book which belonged to my maternal great grandfather.
Here's the link to the entire text.
http://leb.net/~mira/works/prophet/prophet.html
Manish.
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Al-mustafa 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.
I have had the chance to read this book many years ago and had enjoyed it. This is probably the best known work of Khalil Gibran. A collection of 26 poetic essays on various topics. A great book.
I am privileged to have a Gujarati translation of this book which belonged to my maternal great grandfather.
Here's the link to the entire text.
http://leb.net/~mira/works/prophet/prophet.html
Manish.
1 comment:
Reading has been a passion of mine I distinctly remember reading my first book"The Wishing Chair Again"when I was six years old and ever since It is a constant effort to find more treasures.
It's interesting how the right book comes to you at the right time and sometimes the same book takes different meanings in different phases of your life.
My all time favourite book as Manish mentioned is Alchemist my favourite life lesson from it..."when you decide to do something the whole world conspires to make it happen" so don't think too much about what won't work take the plunge and things will happen.
Some of the other books i really enjoyed have been.
*Conversations with God
*The monk who sold his Ferrari
*Life of Pi
*Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintainence
*Many lives many Masters
I hope this blog becomes a great resource for all of us book lovers :)
Anu
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