Elixir of Life

Balzac, Honore De; Waring, James; Bell, Clara

ISBN 10: 1545145296 / ISBN 13: 9781545145296

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elixir of Life
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1545145296
• ISBN 13: 9781545145296
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

First published in 1830, this novella by best-selling author Honoré de Balzac is a story that melds religious and supernatural elements into a horrific nightmares-inducing concoction. After the death of his father, a licentious man goes from amoral to outright immoral, but somehow convinces a priest to give him the titular elixir of life. On his death, he has his son anoint him with the liquid, and it brings him back to life, but the shock of the resurrection startles the son so badly he drops the elixir, leaving his father only alive to his neck…

About the Author

Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.