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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... we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region
hitherto discovered on the habitable globe . Its productions and features may be
without example , as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in ...
... we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region
hitherto discovered on the habitable globe . Its productions and features may be
without example , as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in ...
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This appearance excited our unqualified wonder . We were , as we believed ,
many hundred miles from any land ; but this apparition seemed to denote that it
was not , in reality , so distant as we had supposed . Shut in , however , by ice , it
was ...
This appearance excited our unqualified wonder . We were , as we believed ,
many hundred miles from any land ; but this apparition seemed to denote that it
was not , in reality , so distant as we had supposed . Shut in , however , by ice , it
was ...
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Distillation , and the wonderful effects of steam , processes of which my favorite
authors were utterly ignorant , excited my astonishment ; but my utmost wonder
was engaged by some experiments on an air - pump , which I saw employed by a
...
Distillation , and the wonderful effects of steam , processes of which my favorite
authors were utterly ignorant , excited my astonishment ; but my utmost wonder
was engaged by some experiments on an air - pump , which I saw employed by a
...
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In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you , and there is
nothing more to know ; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for
discovery and wonder . A mind of moderate capacity , which closely pursues one
study ...
In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you , and there is
nothing more to know ; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for
discovery and wonder . A mind of moderate capacity , which closely pursues one
study ...
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User Review - GoodreadsAt times, I was fearful to not be immersed in this haunting and deeply tragic novel. I was very much afraid I would turn a corner or flip on a light to see a demonic monster standing in my wake. In ... Read full review
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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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