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  Summary of The Alchemist by...

  Abbey Beathan

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  The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho—Book Summary—Abbey Beathan 
  (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book.) 
  A story about the transforming power of our dreams and the goodness of listening to our hearts. 
  The Alchemist is the most enchanting novel of Paulo Coelho. He has written a bunch of fine titles but this one takes the cake as the most unique and interesting book of his repertoire. The story is about a shepherd named Santiago who travels from Spain to the Egyptian desert in hopes of finding a buried treasure within the Pyramids. His rash journey starts there and during his journey, he meets several interesting characters like a gypsy woman, a man who calls himself "king" and an Alchemist. All of them are key fragments that will aid Santiago complete his journey. 
  (Note: This summary is wholly written and published by Abbey Beathan. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way) 
  "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."—Paulo Coelho 
  Santiago doesn't know if he will ever find the treasure, or if he'll fail to overcome all the obstacles that lay in front of him. But it doesn't matter, to be on the hunt for this treasure was his destiny and what started out as a treasure hunt for worldly goods soon turned into a search for all the goodness within him. 
  Paulo Coelho gives us a fascinating novel that will make us take a deep look within us to find all of the good things we are capable of offering.

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  Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll

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  When seven year old Alice cannot resist following an unusual rabbit down a hole, she enters the dream like world of Wonderland. Here, everything is extraordinary – rabbits talk, cats materalise from nowhere, babies turn into pigs, and even Alice herself changes at times.  Furthermore, an entire magisterial court, led by the King Of Hearts, proves to be nothing but a pack of cards. However, Alice, a courageous and polite heroine, overcomes all the obstacles presented to her in the bizarre world in which she finds herself.

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  Death of Ivan Ilyitch The...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality

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  Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  First published in Quartette (the Christmas Annual of the Civil and Military Gazette for 1885, which included four stories by the nineteen-year-old Kipling with other items of prose and verse by his parents and sister) with "C.E." ('Civil Engineer') after the name. This is the third story in No. 5 of the Indian Railway Library, The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales. It was collected in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories in 1895, and in numerous later editions of that collection.Morrowbie Jukes, out on a moonlight ride, falls with his horse down an unexpectedly steep slope of sand, into a crater. He finds himself in a sort of village of the living dead, where people who appear to have died of - for instance cholera - but revived when their bodies were about to be burned, are imprisoned. Led by Gunga Dass, a murderous Brahmin, they sleep in burrows in the sand, and live on crows. There is no way out past the steep slopes of sand, or the quicksands of the river. Jukes joins them, despairingly, until he is rescued by his servant, who has tracked him across the sands.

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  The Thousand-and-Second Tale of...

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade", Scheherazade tells a story to the king that includes scientific and technological wonders, deviating from traditional themes. Her description of inventions and discoveries, although fantastic, is met with incredulity, leading to an unexpected outcome.

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  The Birds - A Play

  Aristophanes

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  Birds rule the sky—and man—in this entertaining work by the Ancient Greek playwright known for Lysistrata and The Clouds.   This award-winning comedy—first performed in Greece in 414 BC—remains a delightful read even after two millennia. As the birds of Athens express their frustration about sharing a realm with humans, they hatch a plan to build their own empire in the sky: Cloud-cuckoo-land. Soon they are exercising their power as they form a barrier between mortals and the Olympians—and declare themselves the new gods.

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