Creatures like the sheep, that are used totraveling, know about moving on.\"He thought of the merchant's daughter, and was sure that she had probablymarried. \"Maybe no one herehas, either.\"The Englishman's eyes lit up. That's where I was born.\"\"Well then, we could say that I was born in Salem.\"The boy didn't know where Salem was, but he didn't want to ask, fearingthat he would appear ignorant. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 21 / 94He took his money from his pouch and showed it to the young man. She would never know the difference, because she didn't knowhow to read.Meanwhile, the old man persisted in his attempt to strike up a conversation.He said that he was tired and thirsty, and asked if he might have a sip ofthe boy's wine. When I was young, all Iwanted to do was put together enough money to start this shop. But maybe I'llnever have another chance to get to the Pyramids in Egypt. \"I've seen how the guides readthe signs of the desert, and how the soul of the caravan speaks to the soulof the desert.\"The Englishman said, \"I'd better pay more attention to the caravan.\"\"And I'd better read your books,\" said the boy. 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. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 11 / 94books. The Alchemist - read free eBook by Paolo Coelho in online reader directly on the web page. "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.". \"I have watched the caravan as it crossed the desert,\" hesaid. Share to Twitter . I know good crystal from bad, andeverything else there is to know about crystal. His purpose in life was totravel, and, after two years of walking the Andalusian terrain, he knew all thecities of the region. Then he turned to theboy.\"I am proud of you,\" he said. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist page 17. Video An illustration of an audio speaker. \"The religion hereforbids it.\"The boy told him then that he needed to get to the Pyramids. A lawyer. The shepherd told her of the Andalusian countryside, and related thenews from the other towns where he had stopped. If a guide were to fall ill or die, the camel drivers would draw lotsand appoint a new one. \"Ineed you to help me find out where the alchemist lives.\"First, they tried to find him on their own. He thought for a moment that it would be better to pay herfee and leave without learning a thing, that he was giving too muchimportance to his recurrent dream.\"You came so that you could learn about your dreams,\" said the old woman.\"And dreams are the language of God. There you will find a treasure that will make you a rich man.\"The boy was surprised, and then irritated. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 45 / 94 *\"Why do they make things so complicated?\" he asked the Englishman onenight. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in theheavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race.Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the momentwe're living right now.\"Two nights later, as he was getting ready to bed down, the boy looked forthe star they followed every night. *At the highest point in Tarifa there is an old fort, built by the Moors. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 1 / 94 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. *The times rush past, and so do the caravans, thought the alchemist, as hewatched the hundreds of people and animals arriving at the oasis. He seemed unfriendly, andhad looked irritated when the boy had entered. Each was swearing quietly to his orher own God. He didn't need to seek out the oldwoman for this! It seemed he had made the long journeyfor nothing. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 9 / 94about memorizing a lot of names.When he was finally able to concentrate on what he was reading, he likedthe book better; the burial was on a snowy day, and he welcomed thefeeling of being cold. He continued to look at the beautiful sword for a bit longer, untilhe summoned the courage to turn around.All around him was the market, with people coming and going, shouting andbuying, and the aroma of strange foods but nowhere could he find hisnew companion. Melchizedek, the king ofSalem, sat on the wall of the fort that afternoon, and felt the levanterblowing in his face. But he knew that Salem wasn't in Andalusia. 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. Theysearched everywhere, and found that the oasis was much larger than theycould have imagined; there were hundreds of tents.\"We've wasted almost the entire day,\" said the Englishman, sitting downwith the boy near one of the wells.\"Maybe we'd better ask someone,\" the boy suggested.The Englishman didn't want to tell others about his reasons for being at theoasis, and couldn't make up his mind. Perhaps to a baker, or to another shepherd who could read andcould tell her exciting storiesafter all, he probably wasn't the only one. From where hestood, he saw for the first time that the old merchant's hair was very muchlike the hair of the old king. And, above all, don't forgetto follow your destiny through to its conclusion.\"But before I go, I want to tell you a little story.\"A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happinessfrom the wisest man in the world. Africa was only a few hoursfrom Tarifa; one had only to cross the narrow straits by boat. A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. 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. The scabbard was embossed in silver, and thehandle was black and encrusted with precious stones. Full text of "The Alchemist" He went on tellingstories about his travels, and her bright, Moorish eyes went wide with fearand surprise. That he had attended aseminary until he was sixteen. It traveled during the morning, haltedwhen the sun was at its strongest, and resumed late in the afternoon. Sonow I'm a camel driver. One of them, a cobbler whomade his living mending boots, said that he had traveled for almost a yearthrough the desert, but that he got more tired when he had to walk throughthe streets of Tangier buying his leather.\"\"Well, why don't you go to Mecca now?\" asked the boy.\"Because it's the thought of Mecca that keeps me alive. The Alchemist Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. "Sooo much more helpful than SparkNotes. He knew everything about each member ofhis flock: he knew which ones were lame, which one was to give birth twomonths from now, and which were the laziest. I can't help you if you feel you've gotenough sheep.\"The boy was getting irritated. \"Why are you telling me all this?\"\"Because you are trying to realize your destiny. The Alchemist is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. But that disaster taught me to understand the wordof Allah: people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achievingwhat they need and want.\"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or ourpossessions and property. And don't forget the language of omens. Yes, their days were all the same, with the seemingly endless hoursbetween sunrise and dusk; and they had never read a book in their younglives, and didn't understand when the boy told them about the sights of thecities. 70,081 free ebooks. ''He told the boy it was no coincidence that he had met him with Urim andThummim in his hand. He had suddenly remembered that, in Tarifa, there was an old womanwho interpreted dreams. And you are at the pointwhere you're about to give it all up.\"\"And that's when you always appear on the scene?\"\"Not always in this way, but I always appear in one form or another.Sometimes I appear in the form of a solution, or a good idea. The most important is to believe only in the one true God. He picked up the two stones and putthem back in his pouch. 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. \"How many sheep do youhave?\"\"Enough,\" said the boy. 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. He hadexchanged six sheep for two precious stones that had been taken from agold breastplate. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strongcurrent that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he firstmade the decision.When I decided to seek out my treasure, I never imagined that I'd wind upworking in a crystal shop, he thought. The treasure is at thePyramids; that you already knew. Most of them he hadread in books, but he would tell them as if they were from his personalexperience. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because oneperson betrayed me. The boy approached awoman who had come to the well to fill a goatskin with water.\"Good afternoon, ma'am. He was planning, on this visit, to explain to the girl howit was that a simple shepherd knew how to read. It's the simple things in lifethat are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.And since I am not wise, I have had to learn other arts, such as the readingof palms.\"\"Well, how am I going to get to Egypt?\"\"I only interpret dreams. It's your mission on earth.\"\"Even when all you want to do is travel? But all he foundwas the heavy book, his jacket, and the two stones the old man had givenhim.As he looked at the stones, he felt relieved for some reason. \"They wanted me to be apriest, but I decided to become a shepherd.\"\"Much better,\" said the old man. Like crickets, and like expectations;like lizards and four-leaf clovers.\"That's right,\" said the old man, able to read the boy's thoughts. I don't know how animals know the age of humanbeings.\"\"Tell me more about your dream,\" said the woman. Yet the boy felt that there wasanother way to regard his situation: he was actually two hours closer to histreasure the fact that the two hours had stretched into an entire yeardidn't matter.I know why I want to get back to my flock, he thought. That was the law ofhospitality. The boy had already had experience on theroad with Gypsies; they also traveled, but they had no flocks of sheep.People said that Gypsies spent their lives tricking others. \"If you start out by promising what youdon't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.\"The boy told him that he had already promised to give one-tenth of histreasure to the Gypsy.\"Gypsies are experts at getting people to do that,\" sighed the old man. What he had to beconcerned about was his treasure, and how he was going to go aboutgetting it. Once again he was experiencing thelanguage without words the universal language.The Englishman asked if they were in danger.\"Once you get into the desert, there's no going back,\" said the camel driver.\"And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way ofmoving forward. As he was leaving, he saw, in the corner of the room, his oldshepherd's pouch. \"Did you learnanything?\" the Englishman asked, eager to hear what it might be. The boy smiled to himself. He still had a long way to go toreach the pyramids, and someday this morning would just be a memory. Since that morning in the marketplace, he had never again madeuse of Urim and Thummim, because Egypt was now just as distant a dreamfor him as was Mecca for the merchant. 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 need to sell some wool,\" the boy told the merchant.The shop was busy, and the man asked the shepherd to wait until theafternoon. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasonschange. \"Tangier is not like the rest of Africa. It's always a positive force.\" The years of research, the magicsymbols, the strange words and the laboratory equipment none of thishad made an impression on the boy. \"I had my orchard, my children, anda life that would change not at all until I died. Fromatop its walls, one can catch a glimpse of Africa. 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. For five years he hadbeen working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands ofstones looking for an emerald. A small sliver of the stone can transform large quantities of metalinto gold.\"Having heard that, the boy became even more interested in alchemy. Uponreturning to the wise man, he related in detail everything he had seen.\" 'But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?' They never have to make any decisions, he thought. I could die happily, and that made me feel good.\"One day, the earth began to tremble, and the Nile overflowed its banks. \"There's a caravan leaving todayfor Al-Fayoum.\"\"But I'm going to Egypt,\" the boy said.\"Al-Fayoum is in Egypt,\" said the Arab. Bakers have homes, while shepherdssleep out in the open. He remembered thesword. Theywere conversing in Arabic, and the boy was proud of himself for being ableto do so. Or marry the daughter of a textilemerchant?\"\"Yes, or even search for treasure. He could sell the stones and buy a return ticket. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win.Beginner's luck.\"\"Why is that?\"\"Because there is a force that wants you to realize your destiny; it whetsyour appetite with a taste of success.\"Then the old man began to inspect the sheep, and he saw that one waslame. He owned a jacket, a book thathe could trade for another, and a flock of sheep. He also tried to remembersome good stories to relate as he sheared the sheep. 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. It hurt him a bit to think about it, but he had never seen one like itbefore. \"Everyone has his or her own way of learning things,\"he said to himself. He remembered what the old man had said about offering somethingyou didn't even have yet.\"I'd like you to take me there if you can. \"That didn't teach me anything,either.\"The boy went back to contemplating the silence of the desert, and the sandraised by the animals. Both times.\"The woman was silent for some time. He began toimport enormous quantities of tea, along with his crystal, and his shop wassought out by men and women with a thirst for things new.And, in that way, the months passed. But theonly God I serve is Allah, and in his name I swear that I will do everythingpossible once again to win out over the desert. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 47 / 94The boy awoke as the sun rose. The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988. Itwas there that the wise man lived.\"Rather than finding a saintly man, though, our hero, on entering the mainroom of the castle, saw a hive of activity: tradesmen came and went,people were conversing in the corners, a small orchestra was playing softmusic, and there was a table covered with platters of the most deliciousfood in that part of the world. There were thousands of people there,arguing, selling, and buying; vegetables for sale amongst daggers, andcarpets displayed alongside tobacco. The hooded Bedouinsreappeared more and more frequently, and the camel driverwho hadbecome a good friend of the boy'sexplained that the war between thetribes had already begun. 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. \"Follow the omens.\"The boy picked up Urim and Thummim, and, once again, had the strangesensation that the old king was nearby. In those days it had been wonderful to beselling crystal, and he had thought how he would become rich, and havebeautiful women at his side as he grew older.But, as time passed, Tangier had changed. *He was shaken into wakefulness by someone. 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 17 / 94The old man opened his cape, and the boy was struck by what he saw. 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