THE CASEBOOK OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN; A Novel
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Small 8vo, black cloth with gilt spine lettering over beige boards, half-tone foggy frontispiece, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) using man's upper torso by Theodore Gerricault, [viii] + 353 pages + [2} A Note About the Author + [2] A Note About the Type. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #991
ISBN: 978385530842
An exciting historical-fictional reimagining by brilliant Ackroyd, who seems expert on Everything!
Peter Ackroyd, CBE, FRSL (born 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.--Wikipedia
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