
The Alchemist can be either intuitive or didactic depending on one’s mindset going into the novel. A former department chair for language arts in a title one public school in Atlanta, she currently serves as a chairperson of curriculum and English teacher at Oxbridge Academy of the Palm Beaches. in English from the University of Georgia and a MAT from Agnes Scott College. Paulo Coelho escribe una columna semanal que se publica en los periódicos más importantes del mundo.Īmy Jurskis, the author of these teaching materials, holds a B.A. Conocido mundialmente por el bestseller internacional El Alquimista, Coelho ha vendido más de 100 millones de libros en todo el mundo, los cuales han sido traducidos a 68 idiomas y publicados en 150 países. Paulo Coelho nació en Brasil en 1947 y es uno de los autores con más influencia de hoy día. The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, Brida, Veronika Decides to Die, Eleven Minutes, The Zahir, The Witch of Portobello, The Winner Stands Alone, Aleph, and Manuscript Found in Accra, among others, have sold 150 million copies worldwide. Paulo Coelho, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, is one of the bestselling and most influential authors in the world. 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. 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 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. 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.

With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."Įvery few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. "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.
