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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date February 14, 2016
Pages 110
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781530040582
ISBN-10 1530040582
Dimensions 0.25 by 6.69 by 9.61 in.
Weight 0.56 lbs.
Original list price $6.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Book the first 'Ebba' (1830): Two varmints, Tinker and Sandman, waylay a gentleman in a fantastical ruined house in the Vauxhall Bridge Road in London, but they are surprised and he is carried unconscious to the house of Mr Thorneycroft, a scrap-iron dealer. While he convalesces and falls in love with Ebba, the iron-dealer's daughter, Tinker and Sandman and their associate Ginger (a 'dog-fancier' who steals dogs and resells them) discover in the gentleman's pocket-book the private diary of a man who has lived for over two hundred years, and has committed nameless crimes. Auriol (for it is he) seeks to dissuade Ebba from her love, for he bears an awful doom. A tall sinister stranger has Auriol in his power, and employs a dwarf (who is Flapdragon) to recover the pocket-book. The stranger confronts Auriol and informs his that Ebba must be surrendered to him according to their contract. Auriol refuses, but Ebba is snatched from him, and he is imprisoned, during a nocturnal assignation at a picturesque ruin near Millbank Street. Tinker, Sandman and Ginger offer their services to Mr Thorneycroft to attempt her rescue. Ebba is conveyed to a mysterious darkened chamber where the stranger demands that she sign a scroll surrendering herself body and soul to him. She calls to heaven for protection: in the darkness a tomb is revealed and opened by menacing cowled figures, and Auriol is brought forth. Ebba hurls herself into the tomb to precede him and save him, but then re-emerges silent and cowled to sign the scroll. Phiz illustration: Mr Thorneycroft, Sandman and Tinker in the enchanted chairs, observed by Ginger. Intermean (1800): Cyprian Rougemont visits a deserted mansion at Stepney Green, where he finds the portrait of his ancestor (of the same name), a Rosicrucian brother of the 16th century, one of the Illuminati. Satan has appeared to him in a dream and promised him an ancestral treasure, the price for which is his own soul, or that of Auriol Darcy. Cyprian strikes the portrait and a plaque falls away, revealing the access to the ancestral tomb. There in a seven-sided vault lit by the ever-burning lamp and painted with kabbalistic symbols he finds the uncorrupt body with a book of mysteries, a vial of infernal potion, and a series of chests filled with gold, silver and jewels. With use of the potion, he lures Auriol into a compact whereby he is given a magnificent mansion in St James's Square and £120,000, in exchange for a female victim whenever Rougemont requires one from him. Thus Auriol can win the woman he loves, Elizabeth Talbot; but Rougemont, once the contract is signed, demands Elizabeth Talbot as his first victim, in a week's time. Auriol seeks to defy him and to marry her within the week, but he is thwarted and Elizabeth is abducted on the seventh night. Book the Second, 'Cyprian Rougemont' (1830): Thorneycroft, Sandman and Tinker (with Ginger) continue their pursuit led by another, who is the brother of Rougemont's second victim, Clara Paston. They enter a mysterious mansion, and becoming trapped in a chamber and locked into enchanted or mechanically-contrived chairs three of them are muffled by bell-masks which descend from the ceiling, and then plunged through traps in the floor. Flapdragon appears and attempts to help them find Ebba, while Paston, Ginger and Thorneycroft find Rougemont and confront him with pistols, but Rougemont is impervious to the bullets. Thorneycroft, Tinker and Sandman are trapped in a pit over which an iron roof closes by a giant mechanical contrivance, and Ebba is never found again. Auriol, meanwhile, awakes to find himself in Elizabethan costume, chained in a vaulted dungeon. The voice of Rougemont addresses him, telling him that he has been mad, but that he has given him a potion to heal him, and is his keeper.

Editions
Hardcover
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from Wildside Pr (July 1, 2002)
9781587155949 | details & prices | List price $29.95
About: AURIOL: The Elixir of Life.
from Ayer Co Pub (June 1, 1976)
9780405081088 | details & prices | 246 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $23.95
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Paperback
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from Createspace Independent Pub (April 2, 2016); titled "Auriol or the Elixir of Life"
9781530849772 | details & prices | 126 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.29 in. | 0.54 lbs | List price $8.99
About: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced affordable price in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them
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from Createspace Independent Pub (February 14, 2016); titled "Auriol: Or, the Elixir of Life"
9781530040582 | details & prices | 110 pages | 6.69 × 9.61 × 0.25 in. | 0.56 lbs | List price $6.95
About: Book the first 'Ebba' (1830): Two varmints, Tinker and Sandman, waylay a gentleman in a fantastical ruined house in the Vauxhall Bridge Road in London, but they are surprised and he is carried unconscious to the house of Mr Thorneycroft, a scrap-iron dealer.
from Createspace Independent Pub (December 13, 2015); titled "Auriol: Or, the Elixir of Life"
9781522728870 | details & prices | 152 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.35 in. | List price $7.95
About: Auriol: or, The Elixir of Life is a novel by British historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 1, 2015); titled "Auriol: Or, the Elixir of Life"
9781514793589 | details & prices | 102 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.23 in. | List price $6.99
from Nuvision Pubns (May 30, 2010); titled "Auriol, or the Elixir of Life"
9781595474827 | details & prices | 124 pages | List price $12.99
from Dodo Pr (November 15, 2008); titled "Auriol or the Elixir of Life"
9781409917168 | details & prices | 180 pages | List price $16.99
from Kessinger Pub Co (June 30, 2004); titled "Auriol Or The Elixir Of Life"
9781419108297 | details & prices | 148 pages | List price $20.95
About: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
from Wildside Pr (July 1, 2002)
9781587155932 | details & prices | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $15.95
About: AURIOL: The Elixir of Life.

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