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Fiction · Comedy

The Alchemist

Ben Jonson
1610 · 530 pages

Plague empties London, a master flees, and his butler turns the house into a con shop, selling the philosopher's stone to every greedy fool who knocks. Jonson built the swindle like clockwork.

★ 6.1