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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Soon after this he inquired , if I thought that the breaking up of the ice had
destroyed the other sledge . I replied , that I could not answer with any degree of
certainty ; for the ice had not broken . until near midnight , and the traveller might
have ...
Soon after this he inquired , if I thought that the breaking up of the ice had
destroyed the other sledge . I replied , that I could not answer with any degree of
certainty ; for the ice had not broken . until near midnight , and the traveller might
have ...
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... should I have any fresh incidents to record . . August 13th , 17 — . My affection
for my guest increases every day . He excites at once my admiration and my pity
to an astonishing degree . How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by ...
... should I have any fresh incidents to record . . August 13th , 17 — . My affection
for my guest increases every day . He excites at once my admiration and my pity
to an astonishing degree . How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by ...
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I never beheld any thing so utterly destroyed . The catastrophe of this tree excited
my extreme astonishment ; and I eagerly inquired of my father the nature and
origin of thunder and lightning . He replied " Electricity ; " describing at the same ...
I never beheld any thing so utterly destroyed . The catastrophe of this tree excited
my extreme astonishment ; and I eagerly inquired of my father the nature and
origin of thunder and lightning . He replied " Electricity ; " describing at the same ...
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If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections
, and to destroy your taste for those ... America would have been discovered more
gradually ; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed .
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections
, and to destroy your taste for those ... America would have been discovered more
gradually ; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed .
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... destroyed that fair child . ... will and power to effect purposes of horror , such as
the deed which he had now done , nearly in the light of my own vampire , my own
spirit let loose from the grave , and forced to destroy all that was dear to me .
... destroyed that fair child . ... will and power to effect purposes of horror , such as
the deed which he had now done , nearly in the light of my own vampire , my own
spirit let loose from the grave , and forced to destroy all that was dear to me .
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| Title | Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus |
| Author | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| Publisher | Sever, Francis, & Company, 1869 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 25 Nov 2008 |
| Length | 177 pages |
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