The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho - Audio Book CD
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Every limited years a book is published that changes the lives of its visitors forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million along with a half duplicates sold all over the world, The Alchemist has absolutely established itself as a contemporary classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, today obtainable in English for the very first time, may enchant and inspire an even wider audience of visitors for decades to come. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel looking for a worldly treasure because extravagant because any ever found. From his house in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with all the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the technique teaches us, as just a limited stories have completed, about the imperative wisdom of hearing to our hearts, understanding to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.
About the Author Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "I usually knew," he states, "that my Personal Legend, to employ a expression from alchemy, was to write." He was 38 when he published his initially book.In 1970, after choosing that law school wasn't for him, he traveled through much of South America, North Africa, Mexico, and Europe. Returning to Brazil after 2 years, he started a lucrative profession as a favored songwriter. In 1974 he was imprisoned for a brief time by the military dictatorship then ruling in Brazil. In 1986, he experienced among the defining moments of his life: he moved the 500-plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. On this historic highway, utilized for decades by pilgrims from all of Europe to reach the cathedral mentioned to house the remains of St. James, he accomplished a self-awareness along with a spiritual awakening that he later described in The Pilgrimage.
As piece of the Brazilian rock scene, Coelho wrote song lyrics for numerous well-known performers in Brazilian music, including Elis Regina and Rita Lee. His many popular function was with Raul Seixas. Together they wrote such successes as "Eu nasci há dez mil anos atrás" (I was born ten thousand years ago), "Gita" and "Al Capone", amongst 60 different songs. Seixas taught Coelho the magic of communication: a complex content doesn't should be difficult to recognize - the content need to be because easy because possible to grasp,it is cool besides the fact that to reside it is very the toughest of elements. As Seixas sings: "Two hands together at the same prayer" (Coisas do coração) or "The beauty of simplicity" (Eu quero mesmo).
His fascination with all the spiritual quest dates back to his hippie days, when he traveled the planet understanding about secret societies, oriental religions and mysticism. As he confesses in an interview to Juan Arias, during that time he was introduced to the function of controversial English mystic Aleister Crowley, which influenced his collaboration with Raul Seixas. The influence extended not merely to music, and to plans for the creation of the "Alternative Society," which was to be an anarchist community in the state of Minas Gerais based on Crowley's premise: "'Do what thou wilt' shall become the entire of the Law." The project was considered subversive by members of the Brazilian military government, which imprisoned all potential members of oh ya the group. Coelho is reported to have been tortured during his imprisonment. After a supernatural experience, described later in his book The Valkyries, Coelho left the society.
Later in Holland he met a individual (whom he would refer to as "J" throughout The Valkyries, The Pilgrimage and his url "Warriors of Light online") who changed his lifetime and Coelho was driven towards Christianity. He mentioned he became member of the Catholic group called Regnus Agnus Mundi, with J as its leader. But, the existence of the group is unverified since his own functions are truly the only source while the Latin name is unverified. In 1986 he moved along the Road of Santiago, an historic Spanish pilgrimage and his book The Pilgrimage describes his final initiation. The book The Alchemist has been praised by different personalities ranging from Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe to the singer Madonna, who considers it 1 of her favorite books. It has equally inspired numerous projects – including a musical in Japan, theatre plays in France, Belgium, USA, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland. It is equally the theme of 2 symphonies (Italy and USA) and had its text illustrated by the French artist Moebius.
In 1982 Coelho published his initially book, Hell Archives, which failed to create any impact. In 1985 he contributed to the Practical Manual of Vampirism, although he later tried to take it off the shelves since he considered it “of bad quality”. In 1986, Paulo Coelho created the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, an experience later to be recorded in his book The Pilgrimage. Another novel, Brida has been really introduced in English. In the following year, Coelho published The Alchemist, that is based on Jorge Luis Borges' Tale of Two Dreamers, which was based on a story from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. Slow initial sales persuaded his initially publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become among the best-selling Brazilian books of all time. It has sold over 65 million duplicates worldwide and has been translated into some 56 languages. It is moreover a movie-in-progress yielded by Laurence Fishburne, who is a fan of Coelho.
His books have appeared on bestseller lists in nations not merely in Brazil but in the UK, the United States, France, Germany, Iran, Canada, Italy, Israel, Finland, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Cuba, Poland and Lithuania. He is the all time best-selling Portuguese code writer.
Coelho writes a weekly column published in over 45 nations , including O Globo in Brazil, Akşam, a Turkish newspaper, and Freizeit, a weekly supplement published by the Austrian Kurier. Although his function has sold well it is very not usually critically acclaimed. His function has equally not been unanimously appreciated at home; his election to the Brazilian Academy of Letters proven controversial.[citation needed] Seen by some Brazilian literary critics as a lower writer whose information is too simplistic and synonymous to that of self-help books, criticism of his function arises largely from his plain, direct design and borrowing of tips from additional authors, to the extent of plagiarism. Additionally, his functions in Portuguese contain grammatical mistakes and inaccuracies; a few of these have been minimized in translation or changed in later editions. His functions are pervaded with spiritual themes but never endorse any particular religion, aside from utilizing Catholic imagery.
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