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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice)
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein - Thorndike Reviewers' Choice Author:Peter Ackroyd When two nineteenth-century Oxford students -- the religious Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the atheistic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley -- form an unlikely friendship which leads to heated discussions on the notions of creation and life, the result is a tour-de-force from one of the world's most accomplished authors. Filled with lite... more »rary lights of the day and penned in period-perfect prose, this is sure to become a twenty-first century classic.« less