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1<html>2<head>3<meta charset="UTF-8">4<title>Reading View - The Alchemist</title>5<style>6  body { margin: 0; padding: 0; background: transparent; }7  #render-target {8    width: 1080px;9    height: 2400px;10    position: relative;11    overflow: hidden;12    background: #000;13    border-radius: 0;14  }15 16  /* Reading content */17  .page {18    position: absolute;19    top: 140px;20    left: 80px;21    width: 920px;22    color: #F3F3F3;23    font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;24    font-size: 46px;25    line-height: 1.75;26  }27  .page p {28    margin: 0 0 44px 0;29    text-indent: 50px;30  }31  .page em { font-style: italic; }32 33  /* Bottom status bar */34  .status-bar {35    position: absolute;36    bottom: 60px;37    left: 60px;38    width: 960px;39    color: #9AA0A6;40    font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;41    font-size: 28px;42    display: flex;43    justify-content: space-between;44    align-items: center;45    letter-spacing: 0.2px;46  }47</style>48</head>49<body>50<div id="render-target">51  <div class="page">52    <p>As I wrote in <em>The Alchemist</em>, when you want something, the whole universe conspires to help you. I started knocking on the doors of other publishers. One opened, and the publisher on the other side believed in me and my book and agreed to give <em>The Alchemist</em> a second chance. Slowly, through word of mouth, it finally started to sell—three thousand, then six thousand, ten thousand—book by book, gradually throughout the year.</p>53 54    <p>Eight months later, an American visiting Brazil picked up a copy of <em>The Alchemist</em> in a local bookstore. He wanted to translate the book and help me find a publisher in the United States. HarperCollins agreed to bring it to an American audience, publishing it with great fanfare: ads in the <em>New York Times</em> and influential news magazines, radio and television interviews. But it still took some time to sell, slowly finding its audience in the United States by word of mouth, just as it did in Brazil. And then one day, Bill Clinton was photographed leaving the White House with a copy. Then Madonna raved about the book to <em>Vanity Fair</em>, and people from different walks of life—from Rush Limbaugh and Will Smith to college students and soccer moms—were suddenly talking about it.</p>55 56    <p><em>The Alchemist</em> became a spontaneous—and organic—Phenomenon. The book hit the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller list, an important milestone for any author, and stayed there for more than three hundred weeks. It has since been translated into more than eighty different languages, the most translated book by any living author, and is widely considered</p>57  </div>58 59  <div class="status-bar">60    <span>Location 41 of 225</span>61    <span>13%</span>62  </div>63</div>64</body>65</html>