The Alchemist's Daughter
Dark secrets haunt the manor house at Selden in Buckinghamshire, where Emilie Selden, motherless, fiercely intelligent and beautiful, has been raised in near isolation by her father. John Selden, student of Isaac Newton, is conducting a secret experiment. He aims to turn Emilie into a brilliant...
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Dark secrets haunt the manor house at Selden in Buckinghamshire, where Emilie Selden, motherless, fiercely intelligent and beautiful, has been raised in near isolation by her father. John Selden, student of Isaac Newton, is conducting a secret experiment. He aims to turn Emilie into a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist and fills her with knowledge while recording every step she takes. In the spring of 1725, when Emilie is eighteen, father and daughter begin their most daring adventure - an attempt to breathe life into dead matter. But they are interrupted by the arrival of two strangers. During the course of a sultry August, Emilie is caught up in the passion of first love and, listening for the first time to her heart rather than her head, she makes her choice...with consequences that are far-reaching and tumultuous.
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ISBN:
9780297851035 (0297851039)
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Esoterica,
18th Century,
Alchemy
Mogło być wspaniale, niestety tak nie było. Postępowanie głównej bohaterki strasznie działało mi na nerwy. Chociaż, jakby popatrzeć na to przez pryzmat tego, że cały czas siedziała w rezydencji ze swoim "ojcem", który uczył ją alchemii, jestem w stanie zrozumieć jej czyny. Jeżeli zaś chodzi o resztę...
"Ale zamiast tego wpatrywałam się w płomień świecy, płynny i ruchliwy niczym woda, lecz lżejszy od powietrza, w kształcie języczka, brązowego u podstawy, szarego i chłodnego na środku, w potem jaskrawożółtego, wyciągniętego w górę do najwyższego punktu, jakby opierał się sile grawitacji. Płomień, je...
I liked this story, it was a fast read, but somehow it missed being something special. It's the story of Emilie Seldon, who was raised during the time of Isaac Newton in the spirit of scientific inquiry, and, despite her sex, to be a natural philosopher--a scientist. But her father forgot to include...
I liked it...but I didn't LIKE it, like it. The characters were a bit to one dimensional to be really engaging, and the plot a bit predictable. That said, the way the author weaves the alchemy into both the surface story -- Emilie's activities, and into the psychological story -- Emilie's developmen...
The Alchemist's Daughter (by Katherine McMahon) is set in early eighteenth century, where Emilie Selden is an apprentice of her father John, a natural philosopher and alchemist. She herself is an experiment of his, her learning process, with all her successes and failures being documented in a noteb...
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