—Bergensavisen (Norway)

“The Alchemist is like a modern-day The Little Prince. A supreme and simple book.”

—Milorad Pavic (Serbia)

“Among Latin American writers, only Columbia’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez is more widely read than Brazil’s Paulo Coelho.”

—The Economist

ALSO BY PAULO COELHO

The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom

The Valkyries: An Encounter with Angels

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The Fifth Mountain

The Illustrated Alchemist

Veronika Decides to Die

CREDITS

Cover design: Doreen Louie Cover photograph � by J. Sims/FPG International

Copyright

This book is an English version of O Alquimista, the Portuguese original edition, published in Brazil by Editora Rocco Ltd. (Rio de Janeiro). Copyright © 1988 by Paulo Coelho. This edition was prepared by Alan R. Clarke in consultation with Paulo Coelho.

THE ALCHEMIST. Copyright © 1993 by Paulo Coelho. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books™.

ePub edition July 2005 ISBN 9780061741241

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been ordered.

ISBN 0–06–250217–4 (cloth)

ISBN 0–06–250218–2 (paperback)

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