The Devil and Miss Prym

The Devil and Miss Prym
Paulo Coelho

Nick Caistor

Amanda Hopkinson

A novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars.Burying these in the vicinity, the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village – Miss Prym. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil.In this stunning novel, Paulo Coelho’s unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover. A fascinating meditation on the human soul, The Devil and Miss Prym illuminates the reality of good and evil within us all, and our uniquely human capacity to choose between them.

The Devil and Miss Prym

Paulo

Coelho

Translated by Amanda Hopkinson

and Nick Caistor

Hail Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who

turn to Thee for help. Amen.

And a certain ruler asked him, saying, ‘Good Master, what

shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ And Jesus said unto him,

‘Why callest thou me good? None is good, save one, that is God.’

Luke 18 :18-19

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#ud288a071-f13b-5b97-af36-ab132e5fb9d6)

Title Page (#ua7c20632-eba4-5c81-a450-3eadb965d769)

Dedication (#u8ddb7420-d7ec-5855-bf5a-ac8b0fa9914f)

Epigraph (#ua940f3aa-1b25-54dc-b8e6-4692b974ae90)

Author’s note (#u1d5a9ec6-9464-5da3-818b-eef838970f3b)

For almost fifteen years (#uffd29573-ee33-559a-a48d-356c1ace35c8)

The hotel was, at (#u03ec3b9a-cd8c-5e7c-ac92-2c25c0644578)

The inhabitants of Viscos (#u3cd05c0d-b3ad-568d-a3e1-0cc8a55543cd)

Chantal found it virtually (#ua38d17ab-a959-51e6-8289-4d1b5fe776e6)

Exhausted, functioning almost like (#u633dbb8b-6c9d-53b3-93fe-230a6c8e68a7)

That night, when she (#litres_trial_promo)

By the time the (#litres_trial_promo)

The fork banged repeatedly (#litres_trial_promo)

The man opened the (#litres_trial_promo)

‘It’s a good sign,’ (#litres_trial_promo)

Although Viscos had 281 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chantal hesitated no longer (#litres_trial_promo)

Given the large number (#litres_trial_promo)

‘Let each of us (#litres_trial_promo)

‘Let’s drop all this (#litres_trial_promo)

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The priest dined frugally (#litres_trial_promo)

The two women reached (#litres_trial_promo)

‘In church, on hallowed (#litres_trial_promo)

Chantal breakfasted on the (#litres_trial_promo)

Berta was watching the (#litres_trial_promo)

The stranger went into (#litres_trial_promo)

The Celtic monolith was (#litres_trial_promo)

Only three people and (#litres_trial_promo)

Chantal looked for the (#litres_trial_promo)

THE ALCHEMIST (#litres_trial_promo)

BY THE RIVER PIEDRA I SAT DOWN AND WEPT (#litres_trial_promo)

THE FIFTH MOUNTAIN (#litres_trial_promo)

THE PILGRIMAGE (#litres_trial_promo)