The Alchemist
by Ben Jonson
124 pages~2 hrs
“When the master is away, the con artists will play—and everyone is a mark.”
In a plague-ridden London, three cunning swindlers turn a vacant house into a laboratory of lies where the only thing being transformed is the gold in their victims' pockets. This riotous masterpiece is a whirlwind of chaotic greed, quick-witted schemes, and the hilarious consequences of human gullibility.
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