TY - BOOK AU - Balzac,Honoré de AU - Bell,Clara AU - Waring,James TI - The Elixir of Life AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French fiction -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Elixir_de_longue_vie; Release date is 2004-08-30; Produced by Dagny, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Elixir of Life" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story published in 1830. Set in 16th-century Italy and Spain, it follows Don Juan Belvidero, who receives from his dying father a mysterious liquid that can restore life. When Juan disobeys his father's final instructions, he sets in motion a dark chain of events involving forbidden knowledge, debauchery, and atheism. Years later, his own deathbed command to his devout son leads to a horrifying miracle that shocks an entire community. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1215 ER -