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Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 869.342
EAN: 9780061122415
ISBN: 0061122416
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2006-05-01
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: 2006-04-25
Studio: HarperCollins

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My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."

Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.

The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.

The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.




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Summary: Very Interesting Read
Comment: I don't read many books but i found this one very interesting to read. Enjoy.

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Summary: comes to just one word. 'yourself'
Comment: I loved this book. It took months to actually get into the book, i heard about it, and tried reading it, but gave up. But with a free afternoon, i sat down and opened up something deep down inside. Beautiful book, beautiful story. Where someone actually got to write down the words of feeling deep within someone it can take a life time to understand. A book for life..

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Summary: Probably the best Story ever Written.........
Comment: I love Paolo Coelho's narrative style........
his writing is not just simple but it also has some humor........
this book is such a nice book.....
and GOD BLESS for such a SUPERB Ending!!!!!!!
probably one of the best ENDINGS a BOOK can EVER HAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Personal believes does not make universal truths!
Comment: The main theme--'Everyone has a Personal Legend, when one wants it badly enough, the universe will conspire to help one achieve it.' It's insprational reading. But according to the book, that was not just an idea, but a law. That--is very hard for most readers to agree to.

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Summary: New-agey, self-help twaddle
Comment: There isn't anything in this book that you couldn't get from the output of any number of self-help "gurus". First, the author couldn't even just have a plot being about following one's dream, calling, etc; it had to be one's "Personal Legend" (complete with initial caps). Second, the metaphysics doesn't have anything that one couldn't get from Obi-Wan Kenobi's take on the Force. Third, the characters are one-dimensional. One doesn't get the sense of the shepherd being driven by something, despite the fact that his leaving the seminary in order to herd sheep is motivated by wanderlust. Finally, the plot itself is contrived at many points. For example, the idea of a former seminary student and shepherd making a success of himself as a merchant.


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