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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... existence of the hideous corpse which he had looked upon as the cradle of life . He sleeps : but he is awakened ; he opens his eyes : behold the horrid thing stands at his bedside , opening his curtains , and looking on him with yellow ...
... existence of the hideous corpse which he had looked upon as the cradle of life . He sleeps : but he is awakened ; he opens his eyes : behold the horrid thing stands at his bedside , opening his curtains , and looking on him with yellow ...
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... existence he may suffer misery , and be overwhelmed by disap- pointments ; yet when he has retired into himself , he will be like a celestial spirit , that has a halo around him , within whose circle no grief or folly ventures . Will ...
... existence he may suffer misery , and be overwhelmed by disap- pointments ; yet when he has retired into himself , he will be like a celestial spirit , that has a halo around him , within whose circle no grief or folly ventures . Will ...
Page 34
... existence appeared a part of our own , can have departed forever , that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished , and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed never more to be heard . These ...
... existence appeared a part of our own , can have departed forever , that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished , and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed never more to be heard . These ...
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... existence was for ever before my eyes , and I raved incessantly concerning him . Doubtless my words surprised Henry ; he at first believed them to be the wanderings of my disturbed imagination ; but the pertinacity with which I ...
... existence was for ever before my eyes , and I raved incessantly concerning him . Doubtless my words surprised Henry ; he at first believed them to be the wanderings of my disturbed imagination ; but the pertinacity with which I ...
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... existence was bound up in mine . I thought also of my father , and surviving brother : should I by my base desertion leave them exposed and unprotected to the malice of the fiend whom I let loose among them ? At these moments I wept ...
... existence was bound up in mine . I thought also of my father , and surviving brother : should I by my base desertion leave them exposed and unprotected to the malice of the fiend whom I let loose among them ? At these moments I wept ...
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Mary Shelley Limited preview - 1993 |
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