My wife recently bought me a new book. Well..its an old book in a new 25th Anniversary Edition and I loved reading it again after forgetting about it for nearly 10 years. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho has become a modern classic...selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. But it certainly didnt start out that way! Here is a quote from Paulo Coelho himself : When The Alchemist was first published twenty-five years ago in my native Brazil, no one noticed. A bookseller in the northeast corner of the country told me that only one person purchased a copy the first week of its release. It took another six months for the bookseller to unload a second copy—and that was to the same person who bought the first! And who knows how long it took to sell the third. By the end of the year, it was clear to everyone that The Alchemist wasnt working. My original publisher decided to cut me loose and cancelled our contract. They wiped their hands of the project and let me take the book with me. I was forty-one and desperate.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:22:49 +0000
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