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Auriol; or, The elixir of life - Community Reviews back

by William Harrison Ainsworth
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A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books
Read this in the "edition de Luxe" with illustrations by Phiz. The subtitle of this novel is "The Elixir of Life", and it is suitably Faustian/Wandering Jew-ish. The ending is almost Shelleyishly peculiar and unsatifactory (I am thinking of P.B. Shelley's youthful Gothic novels, of course, not Mary ...
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