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This dark endeavor

by Kenneth Oppel

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When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, 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.

AlchemyElixir of lifeTwinsHistoryBrothesFictionBrothersJuvenile fictionChildren's fictionTwins, fictionSwitzerland, fictionVictor Frankenstein (Fictitious character)