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    Summary of The Alchemist: by Paulo Coelho - A Comprehensive Summary
    Summary of The Alchemist: by Paulo Coelho - A Comprehensive Summary
    Summary of The Alchemist: by Paulo Coelho - A Comprehensive Summary
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    The Alchemist - A Comprehensive Summary

    The Alchemist is a book written by a Brazilian-born author, Paulo Coelho. The book was originally written in Portuguese. And it was originally published in 1988, but by October 2009, the book was translated into sixty-seven languages.
    The Alchemist is considered to be a multi-language, international bestseller, and according to AFP, the book itself was sold in over sixty-five million copies on fifty-six languages all over the world. This puts The Alchemist in the Guinness World Record as the most translated book by a living author.
    The story of the book follows an Andalusian shepherd named Santiago. After his reoccurring dream, he travels to Egypt to find a long lost treasure there. In his dream, he needs to go to Egypt, because there is supposed to be a long lost treasure somewhere in there.
    On his trip, he meets a woman, who is a fortune-teller, and who tells to him that there is, indeed, a long lost treasure in Egypt, but in order for him to find the treasure, he needs to go to the pyramids and this is when Santiago’s adventures truly begin.
    As a best-selling book, translated into more than sixty-seven languages worldwide, The Alchemist is a high quality book, with many interesting adventures that follow Santiago on his journey of claiming the lost treasure.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBen Business Group LLC
    Release dateAug 1, 2022
    ISBN9791221394580
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      SUMMARY of The Alchemist

      by Paulo Coelho - A Comprehensive Summary

      SUMMARY of The Alchemist

      The Alchemist is a book written by a Brazilian-born author, Paulo Coelho. The book was originally written in Portuguese. And it was originally published in 1988, but by October 2009, the book was translated into sixty-seven languages.

      The Alchemist is considered to be a multi-language, international bestseller, and according to AFP, the book itself was sold in over sixty-five million copies on fifty-six languages all over the world. This puts The Alchemist in the Guinness World Record as the most translated book by a living author.

      The story of the book follows an Andalusian shepherd named Santiago. After his reoccurring dream, he travels to Egypt to find a long lost treasure there. In his dream, he needs to go to Egypt, because there is supposed to be a long lost treasure somewhere in there.

      On his trip, he meets a woman, who is a fortune-teller, and who tells to him that there is, indeed, a long lost treasure in Egypt, but in order for him to find the treasure, he needs to go to the pyramids and this is when Santiago’s adventures truly begin.

      As a best-selling book, translated into more than sixty-seven languages worldwide, The Alchemist is a high quality book, with many interesting adventures that follow Santiago on his journey of claiming the lost treasure.

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