VENABLES, Rev. Hubert - The Frankenstein Diaries - (Hardcover in Wrapper)
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This is one bloody weird book - Even the editor/translator 'man of the cloth' has a creepy surname (Remember little James Bulger) - Book in an excellent condition though - Wrapper good but shows shelfwear to edges. >>> Though a work of fiction because of the foreward in which we are led to believe that the legend that is Frankenstein is far from a legend and a prologue depicting 'the only known portrait of Frankenstein' its all too easy to believe that these are in fact the reproduction of a 'tattered bundle of ancient, decaying papers' sent to the author by a Swiss colleague ten years ago, some 150 years after the original story was penned. - Purporting to shed light onto the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, whilst I'm still not sure where I stand with regard to the re-interpretation of classics I thought The Frankenstein Diaries anything but a lazy, unimaginative re-writing. Narrated by the Rev. Hubert before turning to the diary entries of Viktor and finally the observations of Viktor's brother, Eustaice, in a book I found even more macabre than the original. Everything from the sepia coloured pages to the strange illustrations, to the 'family photographs' and 'hand written' diary pages 'penned in a flowery script' turned what I felt was otherwise an OK read into something rather exceptional. (Felicity on Goodreads)
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