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The alchemist's daughter : a novel / Katharine McMahon.
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- ISBN: 0307238512 :
- ISBN: 9780307238511
- Physical Description: 338 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.
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The Alchemist's Daughter : A Novel
During the English Age of Reason, a woman cloistered since birth learns that knowledge is no substitute for experience. Raised by her father in near isolation in the English countryside, Emilie Selden is trained as a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. In the spring of 1725, father and daughter embark upon their most daring alchemical experiment to date--attempting to breathe life into dead matter. But when Emilie--against her father's wishes--experiences the passion of first love, she is banished to London, where she soon discovers she knows nothing about human nature--or her own family's complicated past. So begins her shocking journey to enlightenment. Also available as a Random House Large Print edition and as an eBook
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