Frankenstein"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine's room, and a runaway imagination--fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life--conspired to produce for Marry Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning, it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, "Frankenstein." Written in 1816 when she was only nineteen, Mary Shelley's novel of "The Modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time, "Frankenstein" remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind. |
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Page 43
... took me into his laboratory , and explained to me the uses of his various machines ; instructing me as to what I ought to procure , and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange ...
... took me into his laboratory , and explained to me the uses of his various machines ; instructing me as to what I ought to procure , and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange ...
Page 86
... took the boat , and passed many hours upon the water . Sometimes , with my sails set , I was carried by the wind ; and sometimes , after rowing into the middle of the lake , I left the boat to pursue its own course , and gave way to my ...
... took the boat , and passed many hours upon the water . Sometimes , with my sails set , I was carried by the wind ; and sometimes , after rowing into the middle of the lake , I left the boat to pursue its own course , and gave way to my ...
Page 103
... took the pail from her head , and bore it to the cottage himself . She followed , and they disappeared . Presently I saw the young man again , with some tools in his hand , cross the field behind the cottage ; and the girl was also ...
... took the pail from her head , and bore it to the cottage himself . She followed , and they disappeared . Presently I saw the young man again , with some tools in his hand , cross the field behind the cottage ; and the girl was also ...
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