{"title":"Kahlil Gibran","description":"\u003cp\u003eFind your next read from \u003cstrong\u003eKahlil Gibran\u003c\/strong\u003e. Bestsellers in our range include \u003cem\u003eThe Prophet\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse every Kahlil Gibran book we stock below, with delivery across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9781847498274","title":"The Prophet","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eHaving lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. 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Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet, arrayed as twentysix prose poetry essays, speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and death, and conveys the yearning for a Unity of Being that can only be achieved through love.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese qualities made The Prophet the iconic book of the 1960s counter-culture, which embraced love and spirituality. 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