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Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ost serious thing," replied the minister; "but perhaps we are apt to over-estimate the importance of death at any particular moment. If the question were whether to die or to live forever, then, indeed, scarcely anything should justify the putting a fellow-creature to death. But since it only shortens his earthly life, and brings a little forward a change which, since God permits it, is, we may conclude, as fit to take place then as at any other time, it alters the case. I often think that there are many things that occur to us in our daily life, many unknown crises, that are more important to us than this mysterious circumstance of death, which we deem the most important of all. All we understand of it is, that it takes the dead person away from our knowledge of him, which, while we live with him, is so very scanty."

"You estimate at nothing, it seems, his earthly life, which might have been so happy."

"At next to nothing," said the minister; "since, as. . . Read More

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- Shirley - Aug 26, 2023

Hawthorne’s last novel, unfinished. Awesome to read it and see his notes indicating where he would have enhanced or elucidated upon a point. Also interesting to see how his changes in plot were not fully implemented but yet did not impede my enjoyment.

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- Emma - Jul 09, 2017

I think this may be my favorite novel by Hawthorne due to the themes it deals with. It is still quite rough because Hawthorne didn't finish it, but it was so fascinating to see his process and the notes that he left to himself. Also, I really enjoy stories that deal with obsession.

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- alessandra - Apr 29, 2011

Opera incompiuta di N. Hawtorne il Septimus Felton racconta la smania della vita eterna. Gotico ed a tratti avvincente è l'ultimo libro di questo scrittore. Cambia i ruoli ai personaggi e dissemina disimboli il racconto che diventa man mano misterioso ed ambiguo. Dentro il romanzo il racconto dell'o

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- Kit - May 09, 2016

Could this have been better if he had finished it? We will never know. For Hawthorne completists only (I know you're out there).

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