This dark endeavor
By: Kenneth Oppel
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein -- bk. 1
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781442403154; 9781442403178
Subjects: Alchemy; Elixir of life; Twins; History; Brothes; Fiction
Description: When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old  Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.