Elizabeth Lavenza Elizabeth Lavenza Elizabeth Frankenstein ( Lavenza) is a fictional character first introduced in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus". In both the novel and its various film adaptations, she is the fiancée of Victor Frankenstein. Born in Italy to an Italian nobleman and a German woman, Elizabeth Lavenza was adopted by Victor's family during a stay on Lake Como, after her parents' death. While Victor's cousin in the original 1818 release of the novel, in Shelley's 1831 rewrite she is first introduced as Victor Frankenstein's unrelated, adopted sister. Victor describes her as his perfect woman: young, beautiful,
The System of the World (novel) The System of the World (novel) The System of the World is a novel by Neal Stephenson and is the third and final volume in "The Baroque Cycle". The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton's "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", which bears the same name. "The System of the World" won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Prometheus Award in 2005, as well as a receiving a nomination for the Arthur C. Clarke Award the same year. Daniel Waterhouse returns to England from his "Technologickal College" project in Boston in order to try to