Frankenstein; or, The Modern PrometheusFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on January 1, 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition published in Paris in 1821. |
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... continued their single off- spring . When I was about five years old , while making an ex- cursion beyond the frontiers of Italy , they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como . Their benevolent disposition often made them enter ...
... continued their single off- spring . When I was about five years old , while making an ex- cursion beyond the frontiers of Italy , they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como . Their benevolent disposition often made them enter ...
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... continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode , fairer than a garden rose among dark - leaved brambles . When my father returned from Milan , he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than ...
... continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode , fairer than a garden rose among dark - leaved brambles . When my father returned from Milan , he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than ...
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... continued to read with the greatest avidity . When I returned home my first care was to procure the whole works of this author , and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus . I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers ...
... continued to read with the greatest avidity . When I returned home my first care was to procure the whole works of this author , and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus . I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers ...
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... affirmative . " Every minute , " continued M. Krempe with warmth , " every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost . You have burdened your memory with exploded systems and useless names . Good 39.
... affirmative . " Every minute , " continued M. Krempe with warmth , " every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost . You have burdened your memory with exploded systems and useless names . Good 39.
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Contents
CHAPTER 11 | 105 |
CHAPTER 12 | 114 |
CHAPTER 13 | 121 |
CHAPTER 14 | 128 |
CHAPTER 15 | 134 |
CHAPTER 16 | 144 |
CHAPTER 17 | 154 |
CHAPTER 18 | 160 |
CHAPTER 5 | 53 |
CHAPTER 6 | 61 |
CHAPTER 7 | 70 |
CHAPTER 8 | 81 |
CHAPTER 9 | 91 |
CHAPTER 10 | 98 |
CHAPTER 19 | 169 |
CHAPTER 20 | 177 |
CHAPTER 21 | 188 |
CHAPTER 22 | 200 |
CHAPTER 23 | 211 |
CHAPTER 24 | 219 |
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