Victor
Subtitle: a novel based on the life of the Savage of Aveyron
By: Mordicai Gerstein.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Itard, Jean Marc Gaspard, 1775-1838 -- Juvenile fiction.; Wild Boy of Aveyron -- Juvenile fiction.; Itard, Jean Marc Gaspard, 1775-1838 -- Fiction.; Wild Boy of Aveyron -- Fiction.; Feral children -- Fiction.; France -- History -- 1789-1815 -- Fiction.
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.
Notes: "Frances Foster books."