The Alchemist

By Paulo Coelho (1994)

He was promised a treasure in his dream, is the crux of the vision. Having explained the varieties of the languages of dreams, the seer demands a tithe—from the sum of the treasure, that is—before she would interpret the boy's dream. Agreed, the boy utters; thinking he has cleverly avoided the seer's regular fee! The shepherd boy has to travel to Egypt to secure his...