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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I shall not be supposed as recording the remotest degree of serious faith to such
an imagination ; yet , in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy , I have not
considered myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors . The event
...
I shall not be supposed as recording the remotest degree of serious faith to such
an imagination ; yet , in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy , I have not
considered myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors . The event
...
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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 flights
of my imagination , were born and fostered . I did not make myself the heroine of
...
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 flights
of my imagination , were born and fostered . I did not make myself the heroine of
...
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In all matters of discovery and invention , even of those that appertain to the
imagination , we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg .
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of PREFACE .
In all matters of discovery and invention , even of those that appertain to the
imagination , we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg .
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of PREFACE .
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My imagination , unbidden , possessed and guided me , gifting the successive
images that arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bound of
reverie . I saw — with shut eyes , but acute mental vision — I saw the pale student
of ...
My imagination , unbidden , possessed and guided me , gifting the successive
images that arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bound of
reverie . I saw — with shut eyes , but acute mental vision — I saw the pale student
of ...
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I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation ; it
ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight . There ,
Margaret , the sun is for ever visible ; its broad disk just skirting the horizon , and ...
I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation ; it
ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight . There ,
Margaret , the sun is for ever visible ; its broad disk just skirting the horizon , and ...
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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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