Format:
Book
Title:
The alchemist / Paulo Coelho ; translated by Alan R. Clarke.
Author:
Coelho, Paulo.
Call Number:
FIC COELHO P
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
[San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
Description:
182 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
Portuguese fiction Translations into English.
Alchemists -- Fiction.
Shepherds -- Spains -- Andalusia -- Fiction.
Fables
Andalusia (Spain) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780062315007 (trade)
9780061122415
9780062315007 (trade)
0062502174 (alk. paper)
0062502182