This dark endeavor
Kenneth Oppel.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2011.
- 298 p. ; 22 cm.
- The apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein ; bk. 1 .
- Oppel, Kenneth, 1967- Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein ; bk. 1. .
In the 18th century when his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva, 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.