In Concord at the outbreak of the American Revolution, the brooding young scholar Septimius Felton kills a British officer and takes from him an old manuscript. It seems to hold the recipe for an elixir of endless life, and his search for the missing ingredient draws him away from his friends and into strange legends of an ancestral hall.
Hawthorne’s unfinished last romance, pieced together from his papers after his death. Download the free EPUB.