Coelho's enchanting book, "The Alchemist", comes with answers to the voiced and silent queries of many-a-sensitive spiritual
being, as it is amazingly universal and comfortingly profound. It especially deserves mention as a book which resolves the longstanding duel between destiny and the idea that every
human is capable of creating his own life conditions. By furnishing the reader with a novel notion of human desires, it succeeds in dispelling many of our erroneous ideas.