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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... creatures of my fancy . I wrote then , but in a most commonplace style . It was beneath the trees of the grounds belonging to our house , or on the bleak sides of the woodless mountains near , that my true compositions , the airy ...
... creatures of my fancy . I wrote then , but in a most commonplace style . It was beneath the trees of the grounds belonging to our house , or on the bleak sides of the woodless mountains near , that my true compositions , the airy ...
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... creature might be manufactured , brought together , and endued with vital warmth . Night waned upon this talk , and even the witching hour had gone by , before we retired to rest . When I had placed my head on my pillow , I did not ...
... creature might be manufactured , brought together , and endued with vital warmth . Night waned upon this talk , and even the witching hour had gone by , before we retired to rest . When I had placed my head on my pillow , I did not ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. duty would permit . I never saw a more interesting creature : his eyes have generally an expression of wildness , and even madness ; but there are moments when , if any one performs an act of kind- ness ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. duty would permit . I never saw a more interesting creature : his eyes have generally an expression of wildness , and even madness ; but there are moments when , if any one performs an act of kind- ness ...
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... creature in his better days , being even now in wreck so attractive and amiable . I said in one of my letters , my dear Margaret , that I should find no friend on the wide ocean ; yet I have found a man who , before his spirit had been ...
... creature in his better days , being even now in wreck so attractive and amiable . I said in one of my letters , my dear Margaret , that I should find no friend on the wide ocean ; yet I have found a man who , before his spirit had been ...
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... creatures , and am entitled , therefore , to judge respecting friendship . You have hope and the world before you , and have no cause for despair . But I- I have lost every thing , and cannot begin life anew . " As he said this , his ...
... creatures , and am entitled , therefore , to judge respecting friendship . You have hope and the world before you , and have no cause for despair . But I- I have lost every thing , and cannot begin life anew . " As he said this , his ...
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