Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

Peter Ackroyd

RRP: £16.99

Publisher: CHATTO & WINDUS

Publication Date : 04/09/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

An imaginative take on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Victor Frankenstein creates a water monster that follows him to Switzerland, where Frankenstein is staying with Mary Shelley. An atmospheric novel from the award-winning author, with historical details and little-understood experiments in science. Ackroyd is also a broadcaster, poet, biographer and historian, and has been awarded a CBE for services to literature.

Publisher's description:

Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office in Clarendon Street provides corpses - but they have often died of violence and drowning: they are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse.

ISBN: 9780701182953