Palabras esenciales / Essential Words (Spanish Edition) [Hardcover]

Paulo Coelho (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Vergara & Riba; Gift edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 9879201191
• ISBN-13: 978-9879201190
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,562,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.

In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage.

In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time.

Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S'o Paulo entitle Maktub (1994), the compilation of texts Phrases (1995), The Fifth Mountain (1996), Manual of a Warrior of Light (1997), Veronika decides to die (1998), The Devil and Miss Prym (2000), the compilation of traditional tales in Stories for parents, children and grandchildren (2001), Eleven Minutes (2003), The Zahir (2005)

During the months of March, April, May and June 2006, Paulo Coelho traveled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella in 1986. He also held surprise book signings - announced one day in advance - in some cities along the way, to have a chance to meet his readers. In ninety days of pilgrimage the author traveled around the globe and took the famous Transiberrian train that took him to Vladivostok. During this experience Paulo Coelho launched his blog Walking the Path - The Pilgrimage in order to share with his readers his impressions.

Since this first blog Paulo Coelho has expanded his presence in the internet with his daily blogs in Wordpress (http://paulocoelhoblog.com), Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/paulocoelho) & Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paulo-Coelho/11777366210). He is equally present in media sharing sites such as Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=paulabraconnot) and Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulo_coelho/sets) , offering on a regular basis not only texts but also videos and pictures to his readers.

From this intensive interest and use of the Internet sprang his bold new project: The Experimental Witch http://paulocoelhoblog.com/experimental-witch where he invites his readers to adapt to the screen his book The Witch of Portobello. You can still subscribe in this experiment!

Indeed Paulo Coelho is a firm believer of Internet as a new media and is the first Best-selling author to actively support online free distribution http://piratecoelho.wordpress.com of his work.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, January 3, 2005

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Maria Cabrera "Still a Dreamer" (Baltimore, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Palabras esenciales / Essential Words (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

Great book, full of words of wisdom. It will encourages you to follow your dreams and to believe in love!!!

3.0 out of 5 stars Item description not accurate, December 3, 2009

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This review is from: Palabras esenciales / Essential Words (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

This is a great inspirational compilation of Cohelo's work, I am glad I got it; but this is actually volume 2, which I didn't know was out, I was looking for volume 1 as a present for my brothers. The item description does not state it is "Palabras Esenciales II", that is the only problem I had since I was really hoping to get the original Palabras Esenciales I was kind of disappointed, I like the original much better, but it is a good book as well.