The Prophet (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)

Cloth bound cover with printed foil design on the front cover. The lettering color ; as well as the picture illustrations, are entirely printed in blue ink. There is a removable price sticker on the back of the book, which it is hard to remove without it leaving glue residue behind, therefore I myself left it as it was. The sprayed edges are also of blue metallic color. Very nice quality book I recommend buying it. My copy of the book had only a very tiny indentation on the edge of the top front cover but hardly anything to make a fuss about.

I encountered this book when I was 9 years old and it completely changed the way I lived my life and viewed others. No more woe is me, nor life isnʻt fair. Instead I realized my actions and perceptions are in my control. Truly mind altering. Annually I have a selection of books and other writings, including The Prophet, that I read again. The Prophet is always fresh and I come away with new eyes and attitude. The hardcover book is beautiful with the book pages kissed with a serene blue that is reflected on the cover and the text within. Just looking at the book makes me feel calm and ready for the words of love, acceptance, and the freedom to be. I purchased this book for myself to replace the tattered paperback I was given as a child. After reading and rereading over the past couple of days I am going to purchase a few more books to gift to people I love.

This book just entered the public domain here in the United States and I heard good things about it so I thought I order a copy to celebrate Public Domain Day and introduce myself to this classic work of literature. This is a nice, sturdy hardcover edition from Penguin Classics with blue gilding on the pages and a sweet forward by Rupi Kaur who herself was inspired by the book growing up. With the first page, I was hooked and read the whole way through. The language is so elegant and rhythmic, and the lessons being taught are quite profound, for example the section on "Crime and Punishment" and how it speaks about citizens viewing criminals as "strangers" when they themselves have the same propensity to committing similar acts really stood out to me upon my first reading. Even though it's a very short book (about 100 pages long), it is so dense with imagery that it could take multiple re-readings in order to grasp every detail and inner truth being written. I plan to revisit this book every now and again in order to do so and it would serve as a nice companion for my life's journey. I highly recommend this to everyone.

I have given this book as a gift to so many people at times that their lives are taking a turn.

I've read this twice now. It has the feel of an apocryphal book of the Old Testament, with a serious but heartwarming rhetorical style. The contents of the prophet's sermons are fairly modern, but the topics are abstract enough that they feel timeliness. This is a fun grab bag of aphorisms. Your mileage will vary based on how clearly the metaphor of each aphorism speaks to your own experience. I always find this book intriguing, but inherently hit or miss.

Everyone needs this book. Nice cover & good wisdom!

The Prophet is a loftily written expose of the governing universal laws of love, rhythm, correspondence, cause and effect, dualism and polarity. I absolutely loved it and would not have understood it should it have presented itself to me earlier than this present moment. Deeply grateful for the lessons it beholds.

The name of this book may be off-putting to those who don’t want to be preached to. However, the prophet Almustafa does not claim to be the messenger of God, or even an exponent of a particular religious tradition. Rather, he tries to show people all the profound depths of their humanity. He speaks of the things and experiences common to all – family, friendship, labor, houses, clothes, eating and drinking, and so forth, revealing their significance. The underlying theme of his discussions is unity. We are intimately connected to others – through our love, through work, through acts of giving, and through our hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Even the things that seem to be opposites, like joy and sorrow, or life and death, are the integral parts of the great Whole. When you grow in awareness of that fundamental connection, life opens to you its secrets, and you discover new levels of meaning. Whether you agree with the validity of those concepts, you will surely appreciate the beautiful poetic language in which they are expressed. This book is a true masterpiece.

I don't really understand what thi book wants. Not recommended to buy it.

Light paperback book.

Quality of the book is good.

Okayish

Beautiful messages, conveyed from the Loving Heart of All Creation, to the hearts of all those blessed with the opportunity of reading such a beautiful book, written in the most beautiful English only a loving heart could ever write💓💥