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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... scene is principally laid , and in society which cannot cease to be regretted . I passed the summer of 1816 in the ... scenes which they present , all memory of their ghostly visions . The following tale is the only one which has been ...
... scene is principally laid , and in society which cannot cease to be regretted . I passed the summer of 1816 in the ... scenes which they present , all memory of their ghostly visions . The following tale is the only one which has been ...
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... scene done by her own hand . We learned Latin and English , that we might read the writings of those languages ; and so far from study being made odious to us by punishment , we loved appli- cation , and our amusements have been the ...
... scene done by her own hand . We learned Latin and English , that we might read the writings of those languages ; and so far from study being made odious to us by punishment , we loved appli- cation , and our amusements have been the ...
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... scene was changed . The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded . I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities ...
... scene was changed . The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded . I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities ...
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... scene , it all opened upon me at once : the information I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my en- deavors so soon as I should point them towards the object of my search , than to exhibit that object already accomplished . I ...
... scene , it all opened upon me at once : the information I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my en- deavors so soon as I should point them towards the object of my search , than to exhibit that object already accomplished . I ...
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... scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent , and whom I had not seen for so long a time . I knew my silence disquieted them ; and I well remembered the words of my father , " I know that while ...
... scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent , and whom I had not seen for so long a time . I knew my silence disquieted them ; and I well remembered the words of my father , " I know that while ...
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Mary Shelley Limited preview - 1993 |
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