Volpone and the Alchemist [Audiobook] download free by Ben Jonson
- Listen audiobook: Volpone and the Alchemist
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Release date: 2004/10/28
- Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780486436302
- Rating: 9.28 of 10
- Votes: 353
- Review by: Bodie Bertram
- Review rating: 7.15 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/7
- Duration: 3H16M13S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, FLAC, MOD, MPEG4, Shorten, WMA, WAV, AU (compression ALZ, AZW3, RAR, ZIP, RPM)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M8S (6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Much-studied and frequently performed, these comedies by the great Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson satirize the greed, mendacity, gullibility, and pretension of seventeenth-century London society. Both plays abound in colorful characters, ingenious plotting, biting wit, and sharp insight into human nature.In Volpone (1605), a crafty rich man attempts to augment his wealth by feigning a mortal illness. His wealthy neighbors, spying the opportunity for an inheritance, vie with each other in courting the 'dying' man's favor. The Alchemist (1610) comprises a likewise avaricious cast, headed by a butler and prostitute who join forces with a swindler claiming to possess the philosopher's stone. The trio hosts a parade of eager victims whose hypocrisy and greed place them on a moral footing similar to that of the tricksters. Both plays offer sparkling examples of their author's novel approach to satire and his distinctive blend of savagery, humor, moralism, and a powerful sense of the absurd.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Plays, Playscripts, Contemporary Fiction
- Download servers: FileServe, Waistra, Dropbox, Uploaded, Torrent. Compressed in ALZ, AZW3, RAR, ZIP, RPM
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 8.15 USD
- Dimensions: 134x211x16mm
- Weight: 195g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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