The Prophet is filled with religious inspirations. The book took more than eleven years to create and finish, with twelve images made by the author himself, and is Gibran's most well-known work. It marks the pinnacle of his writing career, during when he became known as 'the Bard of Washington Street.' The Prophet, enthralling and full of emotion, has been translated into forty languages and is often regarded as the most widely read novel of the twentieth century.