{"product_id":"2940012855633","title":"Victor","description":"Elizabeth Lavenza, devoted adopted sister and adoring fiancé of Victor Frankenstein, has never been much more than a footnote of Mary Shelley’s beloved Frankenstein. Now, at last, the passive character is given a voice as she seizes the stage and narrates her own side of the timeless legend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA diffident young orphan in the early 1800’s, Elizabeth is adopted into the Frankenstein household in Switzerland with little knowledge of the family into which she is entering. She quickly befriends the reserved and enigmatic Victor, of her same age. She also takes an immediate liking to the suave and peppermint-scented Monsieur Frankenstein. It is an entirely different case, however, with Caroline, the polished lady of the house. Elizabeth is a secret witness to Caroline’s fair-weather love and severe physical\/emotional abuse of Victor, who only grows increasingly reticent and more devoted to his distractive scientific interests because of it. He only permits himself joy in Elizabeth’s company, and as they grow older they begin to fall in love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow a young woman with unremitting emotional strength and a precarious tendency to put others before herself, Elizabeth goes heedless to warnings of Victor’s eccentricities and comes to believe they are centered on the problem of Caroline. Thus, when Caroline dies from scarlet fever and Victor sets off to a university in Germany to pursue his consuming interest in science and electricity, all seems well. That is, until Victor ceases all correspondence in the light of some mysterious all-possessing ‘project’, of which he will mention nothing – even to his darling Elizabeth. Even when he is found raving and bordering complete emaciation he will utter nothing of the secrets of his tortured mind. The enigma only worsens after the arcane deaths of several of the people closest to him, and he might even be responsible – though he claims a ‘monster’ committed the murders. But should Elizabeth trust hearsay, her own deceitful mind, or the person she has trusted most all of her life? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictor combines gothic horror, psychological realism, and a Brontë-esque compelling narrative that plummets the heroine into the extremes of human emotion in the struggle to find herself in a world of only shadows and ambiguity. It is part bildungsroman and part psychosomatic odyssey driven into the heart of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, examining that fine line where intelligence melts into madness.","brand":"E. J. Loera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147389092080,"sku":"2940012855633","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012855633_p0.jpg?v=1763573086","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012855633","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}