The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (44 page)
Given to me by the patient, Victor Frankenstein, on Wednesday November 15, 1822
.
Signed by Fredrick Newman, Superintendent of the Hoxton Mental Asylum for Incurables
.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
P
ETER
A
CKROYD
is a master of the historical novel:
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
won the Somerset Maugham Award;
Hawksmoor
was awarded both the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Prize; and
Chatterton
was short-listed for the Booker Prize. His most recent historical novel is
The Fall of Troy
. He is also the author of
London: The Biography, Shakespeare: The Biography, Thames: The Biography
, and Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2008 by Peter Ackroyd
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, The Random House Group Limited, London, in 2008.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
The casebook of Victor Frankenstein/Peter Ackroyd.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
1. Frankenstein (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
1792–1822—Fiction. 3. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797–1851—Fiction.
4. Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824—Fiction. 5. Polidori,
John William, 1795–1821—Fiction. 6. Scientists—Fiction. 7. Monsters-
Fiction. 8. England—Social life and customs—19th century—Fiction.
9. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PR6051.C64C37 2009
823′.914—dc22
2008055196
eISBN: 978-0-385-53149-8
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