Fw:other books with the Philosopher's Stone

[Heidi Tandy]

As I'm making it fully off topic, does anyone else have recs of books containing the philosopher's stone?

My personal favorite is Katherine Neville's The Eight, which takes place in both French revolutionary times and the 1970's, just before opec became powerful. Among the characters are Napoleon, Catherine the Great, William Blake, Talleyrand, Rousseau, Bach and Khadafi. And some very sexy chess players. 


Heidi Tandy
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Caius Marcius <coriolan_cmc at hotmail.com>" <coriolan_cmc at hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 02:36:10 
To:HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: JKR influenced by Frankenstein? Stone and Elixir

Real-To:  "Caius Marcius <coriolan_cmc at hotmail.com>" <coriolan_cmc at hotmail.com>

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bookworm417 <bookworm-
417 at c...>" <bookworm-417 at c...> wrote:
 I'm a high school student 
> and had never heard of the philosopher's stone or elixir of life 
> until HP; I assumed JKR had made them up!  Are they common 
> fictional elements or historical objects or....?
> 
> ~Alicia~
> Who was amazed and ecstatic to find a HP parallel in 
> school-required reading and still has MANY pages to read 
> before a "Did you read? quiz" tomorrow 3rd period.

Nicholas Flamel (1326-1410???) was an actual person: see here for a 
detailed bio 

http://www.alchemylab.com/flamel.htm


And to give you give you another literary example: in Gabriel Garcia 
Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), the protean patriarch 
of the Buendia family, Jose Arcadio Buendia, tries to create (without 
success) the Philosopher's Stone in his rudimentary laboratory deep 
in the Columbian jungle. (the episode is recounted in the book's 
second chapter)

   - CMC


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