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The Elixir of Life
Honoré de Balzac · Clara Bell · James Waring
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"The Elixir of Life" is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and James Waring, about a man who inherits a potion said to restore life. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and philosophical fiction.
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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