LiteratureThe Alchemist
The Alchemist follows Antoine, the last count of a declining French family whose male titleholders repeatedly die around the age of thirty-two. His investigation of a centuries-old curse leads beneath his own castle, where an apparent hereditary doom becomes the work of a single, unnaturally persistent avenger. The story combines ancestral guilt, material decay and the pursuit of prolonged life.
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