The Alchemist's Daughter
A Novel
New York : Crown Publishers, [2006]
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 338 pages ; 25 cm
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.
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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
Subjects:
Scientists -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Social isolation -- Fiction.
Country homes -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Alchemists -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Scientists -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Social isolation -- Fiction.
Country homes -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Alchemists -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0307238512
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F McMahon | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |