Frankenstein, or, The Modern PrometheusFrankenstein was published in 1818, the work of a 21-year-old genius named Mary Shelley. Hundreds of movies, adaptations, and monster masks later, its reputation remains so lively that the title has become its own word in the English language. Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, discovers the secret of reanimating the dead. After he rejects his hideous creation, not even the farthest poles of the earth will keep his bitter monster from seeking an inhuman revenge. Inspired by a uniquely Romantic view of science’s possibilities, Shelley’s masterpiece ultimately wrestles with the hidden shadows of the human mind. |
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... allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections , Greece had not been en- slaved ; Cæsar would have spared his country ; America would have been discovered more gradually ; and the empires of ...
... allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections , Greece had not been en- slaved ; Cæsar would have spared his country ; America would have been discovered more gradually ; and the empires of ...
Page 47
... allowed myself sufficient rest , as you see but I hope , I sincerely hope , that all these employments are now at an end , and that I am at length free . " I trembled excessively ; I could not endure to think of , and far less to allude ...
... allowed myself sufficient rest , as you see but I hope , I sincerely hope , that all these employments are now at an end , and that I am at length free . " I trembled excessively ; I could not endure to think of , and far less to allude ...
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... allowed to speak , that I may say what I know of her character . I am well acquainted with the accused . I have lived in the same house with her , at one time for five , and at another for nearly two years . During all that period she ...
... allowed to speak , that I may say what I know of her character . I am well acquainted with the accused . I have lived in the same house with her , at one time for five , and at another for nearly two years . During all that period she ...
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... allowed of no hope or consolation . Elizabeth also wept , and was unhappy ; but hers also was the misery of innocence , which , like a cloud that passes over the fair moon , for a while hides , but cannot tarnish , its brightness ...
... allowed of no hope or consolation . Elizabeth also wept , and was unhappy ; but hers also was the misery of innocence , which , like a cloud that passes over the fair moon , for a while hides , but cannot tarnish , its brightness ...
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... allowed me to look back upon the past with self - satisfaction , and from thence to gather promise of new hopes , I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt , which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures , such as no language ...
... allowed me to look back upon the past with self - satisfaction , and from thence to gather promise of new hopes , I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt , which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures , such as no language ...
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Mary Shelley Limited preview - 1993 |
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