The Alchemist

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Graphic novel adaptation of "Andalusian shepherd boy Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert ... (more)

Graphic novel adaptation of "Andalusian shepherd boy Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within"--P. [2] of cover. (less)

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"'The Alchemist' has long been admired as one of Ben Jonson's best dramas--Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously deemed it on... (more)

"'The Alchemist' has long been admired as one of Ben Jonson's best dramas--Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously deemed it one of the most "perfect" plots in literature. Its satiric cleverness and metatheatricality have delighted audiences from its first performance to the present day; readers and play-goers are swept up in the schemes of a fake alchemist and other determined fraudsters whose scams appear to offer easy wealth and immortality to their morally compromised victims. While no characters emerge unscathed by Jonson's satire, and while alchemy itself is revealed as most likely a sham, the play is nonetheless a tribute to the transformative--indeed, the alchemical--powers of the theater. This edition includes a helpful introduction to the play, including sections on theater history and alchemy. Thorough annotations to the text are also provided, as are contextual materials, including a selection of Jonson's sources, further materials on alchemy, and an example of "rogue" or "coney-catching" literature."-- (less)

"Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure... (more)

"Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a meditation on the treasures found within"--Container. (less)