Download or read book The Elixir of Life Manuscripts written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Septimius Felton: During the Revolutionary War, Septimius Felton, a scholar who seeks a method of attaining earthly immortality, kills a British officer who has insulted his fiancée... On the hillside where he has buried the officer, he meets Sybil Dacy, a strange, unearthly creature, who is looking for a flower she expects to grow from the grave... Before he died, the officer gave Septimius an old manuscript, containing the formula for an elixir of life, requiring the juice of the flower Sybil seeks...