Description "This book has a way of speaking to people at different stages in their lives. It has this magical quality, the more you read it the more you come to understand the words," Reverend Laurie SueWritten by one of the world's bestselling poets, The Prophet, since it was first published in 1923, has been translated into more than 50 languages. Made up of 26 prose poems, delivered as sermons by a wise man called Al Mustapha, The Prophet is a timeless poetic story, a great book of wisdom.