This dark endeavour
By: by Kenneth Oppel
Series: The apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein -- 1; The apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein -- bk. 1
Publisher: David Fickling
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857560124; 9780857560445
Subjects: Alchemy; Twins; Brothers; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; History; Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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. A prequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Suggested level: secondary.