The Alchemist

Name: The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho

by Paulo Coelho · 1988

🏷 Fiction & Classics 📅 1988 📄 197pp

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A young shepherd travels from Spain to Egypt in search of treasure, discovering along the way that the real treasure is the journey itself—and what we learn about ourselves.

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The Alchemist follows Santiago, a shepherd boy who dreams of treasure near the Egyptian pyramids. He sells his sheep and crosses the Atlantic, through Morocco, through the Sahara, into the desert. At every stage, the universe conspires either to help or to test him.

Coelho's philosophy, expressed through the mystical Alchemist Santiago meets, is built around one idea: the Personal Legend. Each pe…

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