The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
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Description
Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner’s office provides the corpses he needs – but they have often died by violent means and are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. And, from Limehouse, makes contact with the Doomesday Men – the resurrectionists. Victor pays better than any hospital for the bodies of the very recently dead. Even so, perfect specimens are hard to come by… until that Thames-side dawn when Victor, waiting, wrapped in his greatcoat, on his wooden jetty, hears the splashing of oars and sees in the half-light that slung into the stern of the approaching boat is the corpse of a handsome young man, one hand trailing in the water….
Additional information
Weight | 0.288 kg |
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Dimensions | 2.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 416 |
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Year Published | 2009-4-2 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0099524139 |
About The Author | Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature. |
A thrilling concoction … Ackroyd's telling of the tale is a worthy revival – I found his book so creepy I kept the bedroom light on all night |
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Other text | A brilliant jeu d'esprit. Above all, it stands as a tribute to the power of the human imagination |
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