Download or read book This Dark Endeavor written by Kenneth Oppel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteen 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.