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Loading... The Mortal Immortal (short story) (1833)by Mary Shelley
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Uma história de terror simples; simpática mas soa datada, e um pouco abusiva de coincidências convenientes. Um elixir da longevidade em uma história de um casamento, em etapas: paixão unilateral, encontro, desagregamento, em primeira pessoa. ( ) Sad... What would you do if you had unknowingly taken an elixir to make you immortal? This is what our main character poses the question of. Working under the alchemist professor Cornelius Agrippa he stumbles upon a work of his in person form that the professor states will cure him of his infatuation with love. And after drinking half of the elixir our main character finds out that it does so much more. I can't imagine how it would be in the beginning stages of immortality. To stay young while everyone around you grows old and eventually dies. I can't imagine watching loved ones or even my husband in a situation like that. I guess death isn't for everyone but it is something that everyone must face. This uncanny and beautiful writing style comes straight to you from the notorious Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and, as I stated about her beloved Frankenstein novel, this one is simply a classic. Highly recommend. no reviews | add a review
Is contained inThe Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Shelley-Volume 1: Including One Novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus and Fourteen Short (Supernatural Fiction) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Has the adaptation
Winzy becomes immortal after drinking an elixir belonging to his mentor, the alchemist Cornelius Agrippa. His mentor soon dies, as does his one love Bertha. Over the years his health gradually worsens and his mentality comes into question. At the start of the story, the narrator claims more than three hundred and twenty-three years have passed since he drank the elixir at the age of twenty. No library descriptions found. |
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