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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... To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me ? " - PARADISE LOST . SEVER , FRANCIS , & CO . Boston and Cambridge . 1869 . B HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MAR 5 194 ! CAMBRIDGE : FRANKENSTEIN ; SEVER, FRANCIS, & CO. ...
... To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me ? " - PARADISE LOST . SEVER , FRANCIS , & CO . Boston and Cambridge . 1869 . B HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MAR 5 194 ! CAMBRIDGE : FRANKENSTEIN ; SEVER, FRANCIS, & CO. ...
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... dark , shapeless substances , but cannot bring into being the sub- stance itself . In all matters of discovery and invention , even of those that appertain to the imagination , we are continu- ally reminded of the story of Columbus and ...
... dark , shapeless substances , but cannot bring into being the sub- stance itself . In all matters of discovery and invention , even of those that appertain to the imagination , we are continu- ally reminded of the story of Columbus and ...
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... dark parquet , the closed shutters , with the moonlight struggling through , and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond . I could not so easily get rid of my hideous phan- tom ; still it haunted me . I must ...
... dark parquet , the closed shutters , with the moonlight struggling through , and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond . I could not so easily get rid of my hideous phan- tom ; still it haunted me . I must ...
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... dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice . I profited of this time to rest for a few hours . In the morning , however , as soon as it was light , I went upon deck , and found all the sailors busy ...
... dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice . I profited of this time to rest for a few hours . In the morning , however , as soon as it was light , I went upon deck , and found all the sailors busy ...
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... Darkness had no effect upon my fancy ; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life , which , from being the seat of beauty and strength , had become food for the worm . Now I was led to examine the cause ...
... Darkness had no effect upon my fancy ; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life , which , from being the seat of beauty and strength , had become food for the worm . Now I was led to examine the cause ...
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