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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 869.342
EAN: 9780060527990
ISBN: 0060527994
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: July 01, 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: July 03, 2006
Studio: HarperCollins

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil?



In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives.



Paulo Coelho's stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil, and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh perspective: incentive to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, from truly living.



The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test.






Rating: - Bewitched
Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so powerful, so engaging that I just can't put it down, and then, despite the speed at which I read it, it hits me like a ton of bricks. This book is an amazing and inspiring read. Coelho teaches a lesson about life in the context of a simple yet deeply engaging tale of temptation. The characters are real, and until the last page, you just don't know how this one is going to end.

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Rating: - Inspiring read
I stumbled on Paulo Coelho purely by accident. Overcast day in a used bookstore, and I find Veronika Decides to Die. After that I was captivated by Coelho's writing style and wonderful sense of finding one's spiritual way. The Devil and Miss Prym wasn't anything like I expected, but none of his stories are. The characters are wonderfully created in loving detail, the storyline has so many ways it could turn so that the reader is left really wondering what will happen next, trusting that Coelho will ... Read More

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Rating: - Good, Evil, Good, Evil- bla, bal, blah
When this book was chosen for my book club I was looking forward to reading it since "The Alchemist" is my all time favorite book. "The Devil & Miss Prym" could have been easily written into a short story fable. Al no point did it grip me or suck me into the story line. I was disappointed as were 6 out of 6 of my book club members. Read "The Alchemist" !!!

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Rating: - Enjoyable
"The Devil and Miss Prym" is a thought provoking book. Talks about coexistance of good and evil in human nature and how life circumstances can change us each time into either good or a bad people. Talks about how religion and politics can rule humanity over fear. Virtue is one of fear's faces.

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Rating: - Just OK
For me, a deep thought provoking book stays with me for at least a few days or even weeks after I've read it as I think about the story and the questions raised. I liked this book and it's a fast read but it's not a book that stayed in my thoughts for more than a day after I finished it. Maybe it's just me.

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