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The Devil and Miss Prym A Novel of Temptation

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few weeks ago
“The Devil and Miss Prym” by Paulo Coelho revolves around the idea as to whether or not humans are bad by nature. The novel is short, the vocabulary is easy and the narration is simple, however it has philosophical views which make the reader think and which can be complex to some point. Through his novel Coelho does not clearly state whether or not humans are essentially bad or good....more
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After reading this book I was mad as hopping hell. Not because there was anything outrageous or controversial in the book itself. No, the reason I was mad as hopping hell was because I had wasted time reading this book in the belief that the author would have at least something clever to say. He didn't. It is the sort of book that frightfully tedious people are prone to see as...more
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I enjoyed this Coelho novel about good and evil. It unlocked my reading block of almost a year now. It may not be Coelho's very best work, but his ability to mesh reality and existentialist myth is tremendously enjoyable to me. Heaven and hell resides within all of us and is a matter of wisdom and choice.
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few weeks ago
Just finished reading the novel and as always Paolo Coelho left me with such a high-spirit of enlightened hope for the human race wherein we all belong. I always take Coelho's writings in the literary level, such as the Bible itself. Never that religious, I am a non-practicing Catholic, but I believe in the Good and the Evil and that in the end the Good always prevails. Coelho's focal point in...more
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few weeks ago
As much as I love Coelho's novels Veronika Decides to Die and The Alchemist, I was disappointed by this one (and even more by Eleven Minutes). Shirley Jackson expressed the same idea in her short story "The Lottery" in a couple of pages that it takes Coelho a whole book to express. If you've never read Coelho or Jackson's short story, you may really enjoy this book, but I don't think it's his...more
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  • ISBN-10: 8408037080
  • ISBN-13: 9788408037088
  • ISBN-10: 9562581144
  • ISBN-13: 9789562581141
  • ISBN-10: 857302335X
  • ISBN-13: 9788573023350
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