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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
(Hardcover, 2009)
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Author: Peter Ackroyd
Since his first novel, THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON, Peter Ackroyd has used his fiction as a way to expl...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0385530846
ISBN-13: 9780385530842
Oct 2009
Publisher: Nan a Talese
353 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Since his first novel, THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON, Peter Ackroyd has used his fiction as a way to explore and reinvent the lives of great literary figures such as Oscar Wilde, John Milton, Thomas Chatterton, and Thomas de Quincey. In THE CASEBOOK OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN he takes the familiar tale of the young Doctor Victor Frankenstein, a man obsessed with bringing the dead back to life, and imagines him as a real historical figure, friends with Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and the young Mary Shelley herself. By mingling the events of FRANKENSTEIN with the real lives of the Romantic poets, Ackroyd creates a sinister and thought-provoking novel that will appeal equally to literary scholars and fans of supernatural horror.
| Size | | Length: | 353 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 19.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[Ackroyd's] novel is a brilliant riff on ideas that have informed literary, horror and science fiction for nearly two centuries." (starred review)
(08/03/2009)
"Peter Ackroyd knows a thing or two about raising the dead. His experiments in reanimation have been conducted entirely in the laboratory of literature, and his quick-witted new novel, THE CASE OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN, argues persuasively for the wisdom of that choice."
(11/01/2009)
"[T]his fast-paced, most readable novel is charged with electricity and enchanting mischief.... Ackroyd, a biographer and novelist who is at his best when he reanimates the historical figures of London's past and transforms them into his own fictional characters, has a splendid time imagining Mary Shelley and her husband, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, along with Lord Byron, the poet rock star of his age, befriending a melancholy Swiss scientist named Victor Frankenstein....What this most satisfying novel serves to remind us is that there just might be a bit of Victor Frankenstein lurking in each of us."
(10/30/2009)
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