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The Centenarian: Or, the Two Beringhelds
(Hardcover, 1976)
Author: Honore De Balzac
A mostly unknown early novel by Balzac, THE CENTENARIAN vies with Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN for th...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0405081103
ISBN-13: 9780405081101
Jun 1976
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
454 pages
Supernatural and Occult Fiction Series
Language: English |
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Synopsis
A mostly unknown early novel by Balzac, THE CENTENARIAN vies with Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN for the honor of being the first science-fiction novel. The novel's title character develops a method for artificially prolonging his life, but as a result his body undergoes a kind of petrifaction until he is more mineral than human. Like FRANKENSTEIN, THE CENTENARIAN is filled with gothic scenes of mist-shrouded castles and sublime mountain peaks, and should be considered significant in terms of both Balzac's oeuvre and the birth of science-fiction.
| Details | | Series: | Supernatural and Occult Fiction Series |
| Size | | Length: | 454 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 26.4 oz |
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