Състояние: Много добро
Забележка: Здраво книжно тяло, без забележки в текста.
Издателство: Penguin Books
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 140
Височина (мм): 220
Корици: Твърди

Paulo Coelho is one of the world’s best-loved storytellers, bringing joy and wisdom to millions. In this collection of extracts from classic books that have inspired him, Coelho explores the emotions and reflections in works as diverse as The Art of War, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Frankenstein.

Arranged in four sections - water, earth, air and fire - which echo the four elements of the Ancients, Coelho’s anthology takes us by the hand on a wonderful journey: discovery with Alice through the looking-glass; danger with Dracula’s human pet; thrills with Jekyll and Hyde in nineteenth-century London; and powerful lust with Venus and her furs, among many others.

Coelho shows how lessons can be learned in the most surprising places, and that books from ancient Persia through to post-war Britain can each offer profound insights into our lives, our loves, and the truth in all of our hearts.
Paulo СогІІю ín one of the molt widely read authors in ibe world. His books have sold njkr than IOO million copies worldwide, have been translated into sixty-nine languages, and have been published in 150 countries. In 1986, at the age of thirty-eight, Paulo Coelho walked the Road to Santiago, and it was there that he reconverted to Christianity and found again the faith given to him by the Jesuit fathers of his school years. He would later describe this experience in his first book, The Pilgrimage, published in 1987. The following year, his second book, The Alchemist, established his worldwide reputation. The novel has already achieved the status of a universally admired modern classic. Its story, considered to be timeless by many, is set to enchant and inspire whole generations of future readers.

Subsequent books were Brida (1990), 0 Dom Supremo: The Gifl (1991), The Valkyries (1992), Maktub (1994). Bj the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994). The Fifih Mountain (1996)’ Love Letters from a Prophet (1997). The Manual of the Warrior of Light (1997), Veronika Decides to Die (1998) and The Devil and Miss Ptym (2000). Among his recent novels are Eleven Minutes - the bestselling fiction title worldwide in 2003 - The Zflhir (2005), Like the Flowing River (2006), The Witch of Portobello (2006) and The Winner Stands Alone (2008).

He has received numerous prestigious international awards. The critics have praised his poetic, realistic and philosophical style, and the symbolic language that does not speak to our minds, but to our hearts. He has been a member of the prestigious Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002 and he was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 2007-