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. Everyone, when they areyoung, knows what their destiny is.\"At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like tosee happen to them in their lives. The Alchemist Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. This was a port town, and the only truthfulthing his friend had told him was that port towns are full of thieves.Now he understood why the owner of the bar had been so upset: he was But you know that I'm not going to go to Mecca. Butthe king of Salem hoped desperately that the boy would be successful.It's too bad that he's quickly going to forget my name, he thought. Project Gutenberg. 'As you wanderaround, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.' Only when he consents.\"Wait for the end of the war. But the stones were proof thathe had met with a kinga king who knew of the boy's past.\"They're called Urim and Thummim, and they can help you to read theomens.\" The boy put the stones back in the pouch and decided to do anexperiment. \"I have to go and gather my sheep andget going.\"\"Give me one-tenth of your sheep,\" said the old man, \"and I'll tell you howto find the hidden treasure.\"The boy remembered his dream, and suddenly everything was clear to him.The old woman hadn't charged him anything, but the old manmaybe hewas her husbandwas going to find a way to get much more money inexchange for information about something that didn't even exist. Then aman approached.\"Do you know someone here who cures people's illnesses?\" the boy asked.\"Allah cures our illnesses,\" said the man, clearly frightened of the strangers.\"You're looking for witch doctors.\" He spoke some verses from the Koran,and moved on.Another man appeared. He was older, and was carrying a small bucket. I don't want to changeanything, because I don't know how to deal with change. The boyand the Englishman had bought camels, and climbed uncertainly onto theirbacks. Noteveryone can see his dreams come true in the same way. There had been a time when he thought that his sheep couldteach him everything he needed to know about the world. Just as you knowthat you're not going to buy your sheep.\"\"Who told you that?\" asked the boy, startled.\"Maktub\" said the old crystal merchant.And he gave the boy his blessing. \"The Koran requires me tofeed a hungry person.\"\"Well then, why did you let me do it?\" the boy asked.\"Because the crystal was dirty. He could always become a crystal salesman again. He still had a long way to go toreach the pyramids, and someday this morning would just be a memory. \"Ineed you to help me find out where the alchemist lives.\"First, they tried to find him on their own. Arabs oftenappeared in the city, shopping and chanting their strange prayers severaltimes a day.\"Where are you from?\" the boy asked.\"From many places.\"\"No one can be from many places,\" the boy said. When he had finished his smoke,he reached into one of his pockets, and sat there for a few moments,regarding what he had withdrawn.It was a bundle of money. He thought that the horizon was a bitlower than it had been, because he seemed to see stars on the desert itself.\"It's the oasis,\" said the camel driver.\"Well, why don't we go there right now?\" the boy asked.\"Because we have to sleep.\" * If he were to tire of the Andalusianfields, he could sell his sheep and go to sea. The room'sfurnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,and two chairs.The woman sat down, and told him to be seated as well. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. He thought about asking him togive it back, but decided that would be unfriendly. If I don't find it, I can always go home. Full Book Summary. He didn't know the man yet, but his practiced eyewould recognize him when he appeared. And if the book was irritating, as the old man had said, theboy still had time to change it for another.\"It's a book that says the same thing almost all the other books in the worldsay,\" continued the old man. The miner, with all the angerand frustration of his five fruitless years, picked up the stone and threw itaside. The boy approached awoman who had come to the well to fill a goatskin with water.\"Good afternoon, ma'am. I shouldhave repeated it for him. Theboy felt ill and terribly alone. But now, as the sun began to set, he was in a differentcountry, a stranger in a strange land, where he couldn't even speak thelanguage. It was only theEnglishman who was unaware of all this; he was, for the most part,immersed in reading his books.The boy, too, had his book, and he had tried to read it during the first fewdays of the journey. And better still to be alone with one's Maybe the church, with thesycamore growing from within, had been haunted. He realized thathe could do the same thing the old man had donesense whether a personwas near to or far from his destiny. Gold would lose its value.\"It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, whoachieve the Master Work. When his vision returned to normal,the boy was able to read what the old man had written in the sand.There, in the sand of the plaza of that small city, the boy read the names ofhis father and his mother and the name of the seminary he had attended.He read the name of the merchant's daughter, which he hadn't even known,and he read things he had never told anyone. I couldn't have found God in the seminary,he thought, as he looked at the sunrise.Whenever he could, he sought out a new road to travel. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. As long asthe boy knew how to find the best pastures in Andalusia, they would be hisfriends. The caravan would be very lucky to reach theoasis.The animals were exhausted, and the men talked among themselves lessand less. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 26 / 94\"I can clean up those glasses in the window, if you want,\" said the boy.\"The way they look now, nobody is going to want to buy them.\"The man looked at him without responding.\"In exchange, you could give me something to eat.\"The man still said nothing, and the boy sensed that he was going to have tomake a decision. People continued to comeand go from the baker's shop. Then he sat in the sun-filled doorway, smokingthe hookah.He smoked in silence, thinking of nothing, and listening to the sound of thewind that brought the scent of the desert. \"That didn't teach me anything,either.\"The boy went back to contemplating the silence of the desert, and the sandraised by the animals. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 27 / 94asleep. \"Inany case, it's good that you've learned that everything in life has its price.This is what the Warriors of the Light try to teach.\"The old man returned the book to the boy.\"Tomorrow, at this same time, bring me a tenth of your flock. The only thing he had noticed was that talk ofwar was becoming more and more frequent. Bakers have homes, while shepherdssleep out in the open. He saw to it that all the sheep enteredthrough the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent theflock from wandering away during the night. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around him, the beauty of theflowers, and the taste with which everything had been selected. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hearthem. He knew he was stronger than hisfriend.Suddenly, there in the midst of all that confusion, he saw the most beautifulsword he had ever seen. All his life and all his studieswere aimed at finding the one true language of the universe. The sheep were at the gates of the city, in a stable thatbelonged to a friend. '\"Relieved, the boy picked up the spoon and returned to his exploration ofthe palace, this time observing all of the works of art on the ceilings and thewalls. That'swhy I have to live off what my daughters provide me with.\"\"And what if I never get to Egypt?\"\"Then I don't get paid. \"I'm like everyone elseI see theworld in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.\"He ran his fingers slowly over the stones, sensing their temperature andfeeling their surfaces. Free, PDF, The Alchemist, Download, Paulo Coelho. Now everything was quite different from how it was that day theyhad set out: then, there had been confusion and shouting, the cries ofchildren and the whinnying of animals, all mixed with the nervous orders ofthe guides and the merchants. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist page 17. He had been in the same place for thirty years: a shop atthe top of a hilly street where few customers passed. ISBN 0-7225-3293-8. Santiago is a humble shepherd whose desires are . But she said nothing.\"Then, at the Egyptian pyramids,\"he said the last three words slowly, sothat the old woman would understand\"the child said to me, If you comehere, you will find a hidden treasure.' The rest is up to Allah, including the danger.\"And he concluded by saying the mysterious word: \"Maktub.\"\"You should pay more attention to the caravan,\" the boy said to theEnglishman, after the camel driver had left. An illustration of an open book. About The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Book PDF; Language : English; Pullisher : Harper; Later Printing edition ; ISBN-10 : 9788172234980; ISBN-13 : 978-8172234980; It was \"yes.\"\"Am I going to find my treasure?\" he asked.He stuck his hand into the pouch, and felt around for one of the stones. Before long, maybe in just a few days, hewould be at the Pyramids. He decided to stay right there and await his return.As he waited, a priest climbed to the top of a nearby tower and began hischant; everyone in the market fell to their knees, touched their foreheads tothe ground, and took up the chant. \"Hewanted your money,\" he said. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent,impressed by their elemental force.I've learned things from the sheep, and I've learned things from crystal, hethought. He had to choose between something he hadbecome accustomed to and something he wanted to have. Don't try to enterinto the life of the oasis,\" he said, and walked away.But the Englishman was exultant. The old woman had said the same thing. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 49 / 94\"It helped me to trust in people,\" the Englishman answered.Meanwhile, the boy thought about his treasure. \"But I have to buy two camels.\"They walked together through the narrow streets of Tangier. He recalled that when the sun had risen thatmorning, he was on another continent, still a shepherd with sixty sheep, andlooking forward to meeting with a girl. Like. It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that therest of the world refused to acknowledge. But he decided to take a chance. He had learned some important things, like how todeal in crystal, and about the language without words and about omens.One afternoon he had seen a man at the top of the hill, complaining that itwas impossible to find a decent place to get something to drink after such aclimb. He hadalways believed that the sheep were able to understand what he said. He knew that wind: people called it the levanter,because on it the Moors had come from the Levant at the eastern end ofthe Mediterranean.The levanter increased in intensity. Theowner of the bar came over and looked, as well. The boythought back to that conversation with his father, and felt happy; he hadalready seen many castles and met many women (but none the equal of theone who awaited him several days hence). *The men climbed the hill, and they were tired when they reached the top.But there they saw a crystal shop that offered refreshing mint tea. Then she again took his hands andstudied them carefully.\"I'm not going to charge you anything now,\" she said. *Two more months passed, and the shelf brought many customers into thecrystal shop. They were content with just food and water, and, in exchange, theygenerously gave of their wool, their company, andonce in a whiletheirmeat.If I became a monster today, and decided to kill them, one by one, theywould become aware only after most of the flock had been slaughtered,thought the boy. I know good crystal from bad, andeverything else there is to know about crystal. In one he had read that, many years ago, afamous Arabian alchemist had visited Europe. \"Well, I'm the king ofSalem!\"People say strange things, the boy thought. They reached the center of a largeplaza where the market was held. Wearing his new sandals, he descended the stairs silently.The city was still sleeping. The shepherd told her of the Andalusian countryside, and related thenews from the other towns where he had stopped. And he hadn't perceived them because he had becomeaccustomed to them. \"And suddenly, the child took me by both hands andtransported me to the Egyptian pyramids.\"He paused for a moment to see if the woman knew what the Egyptianpyramids were. Then he said, \"The Prophetgave us the Koran, and left us just five obligations to satisfy during ourlives. \"Why are you telling me all this?\"\"Because you are trying to realize your destiny. I wanted them to be a part of yourinheritance. They provided warnings aboutthieves and barbarian tribes. You can see the PDF demo, size of the PDF, page numbers, and direct download Free PDF of 'The Alchemist Novel' using the download button. Now, I can see that it hasn't been too bad. He haddecided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as theones he had admired in books.He walked slowly through the market. \"My friend bought all the other sheepimmediately. The Englishman had several suitcases filled with books.There was a babble of noise, and the leader had to repeat himself severaltimes for everyone to understand what he was saying.\"There are a lot of different people here, and each has his own God. Theshop is exactly the size I always wanted it to be. *He was shaken into wakefulness by someone. Then he asked that everyone, including his own sentinels, handover their arms to the men appointed by the tribal chieftains.\"Those are the rules of war,\" the leader explained. They reminded him of the old man.\"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you toachieve it,\" he had said.The boy was trying to understand the truth of what the old man had said.There he was in the empty marketplace, without a cent to his name, andwith not a sheep to guard through the night. He quickly pulled his hands away.\"I didn't come here to have you read my palm,\" he said, already regrettinghaving come. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 18 / 94\"The boy began climbing and descending the many stairways of the palace,keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. I've already imagined a thousand times crossing the desert, arrivingat the Plaza of the Sacred Stone, the seven times I walk around it beforeallowing myself to touch it. Africa was only a few hoursfrom Tarifa; one had only to cross the narrow straits by boat. He believed in omens. So he began to wander through the city,and found himself at the gates. The new arrival was a youngman in Western dress, but the color of his skin suggested he was from thiscity. The priests carried them in a golden breastplate.\"The boy was suddenly happy to be there at the warehouse.\"Maybe this is an omen,\" said the Englishman, half aloud.\"Who told you about omens?\" The boy's interest was increasing by themoment.\"Everything in life is an omen,\" said the Englishman, now closing the journalhe was reading. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 17 / 94The old man opened his cape, and the boy was struck by what he saw. They were on the right track.Finally, a young woman approached who was not dressed in black. We're only two hours from Spain.\"\"Sit down, and let me treat you to something,\" said the boy. He had tried in vain to establish a relationship with We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognizethat it is working for us. He held Urim and Thummim in his hand; becauseof those two stones, he was once again on the way to his treasure.\"I am always nearby, when someone wants to realize their destiny,\" the oldking had told him.What could it cost to go over to the supplier's warehouse and find out if thePyramids were really that far away? There was alsothe merchant's daughter, but she wasn't as important as his flock, becauseshe didn't depend on him. \"People will pass byand bump into it, and pieces will be broken.\"\"Well, when I took my sheep through the fields some of them might havedied if we had come upon a snake. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 1 / 94 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. But I had to insist on the payment of sixsheep because I helped you to make your decision.\"The boy put the stones in his pouch. The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Coelho fThe Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition PDF The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition by by Paulo Coelho This The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition book is not really ordinary book, you have it then the world is in your hands. And he knew that shepherds, likeseamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there wassomeone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.The day was dawning, and the shepherd urged his sheep in the direction ofthe sun. Fromatop its walls, one can catch a glimpse of Africa. 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