The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein - Peter Ackroyd
Category: Thriller
Narrator: John Lee
Tags: Thriller, Historical Fiction, Adults
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Release date: October 6, 2009 Duration: 09:02:15, When two nineteenth-century Oxford studentsVictor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelleyform an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the worlds most accomplished and prolific authors., This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. Afterward, these concepts become an obsession for the young scientist. As Victor begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victors purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday menthe resurrectionistswhose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as
