num_pages: 272
description: A novel based on the work of Dr. Jean Marc Itard who spent the years shortly after the French Revolution working with a "savage" boy whom he called Victor, trying to prove he was not an idiot and to teach him how to live in human society.
language: English
title: Victor: A Novel Based on the Life of the Savage of Aveyron
titlecomplete: Victor: A Novel Based on the Life of the Savage of Aveyron
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 56
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)