3:39:29🇬🇧 THE ALCHEMIST - Paulo Coelho | Audiobook
An unabridged English reading of Paulo Coelho's 1988 fable, three hours and thirty nine minutes of it: Santiago the Andalusian shepherd dreams twice of treasure at the Egyptian pyramids, sells his flock on the word of a man claiming to be the king of Salem, and crosses two continents to find out where it is. This page is a deep literary companion rather than a transcript, since the novel is under copyright: the full arc told in our own prose, every idea the book runs on (the Personal Legend, the Soul of the World, beginner's luck, maktub, the four obstacles, the alchemical Master Work), and the sources Coelho borrowed from, including Borges, the One Thousand and One Nights, and Rumi. It also covers the publishing history that took a 900 copy print run to more than 80 languages, notes on this specific recording, and an honest account of why the book is both beloved and widely dismissed.