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The Alkahest
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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A novel by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, depicting a man whose obsession with alchemy and the search for the philosopher's stone consumes his family's fortune. Suitable for readers of nineteenth-century French literature and Balzac's *La Comédie humaine*.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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