Timon of Athens
by William Shakespeare
81 pages~1 hrs
“When the gold runs out, the wolves come out to play.”
Discover Shakespeare’s most searing indictment of greed and the fragility of social status. When Athens’ most generous benefactor is abandoned by the friends he enriched, his transformation into a bitter misanthrope reveals the darkest depths of the human heart.
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