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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... desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me , whose eyes would reply to mine . You may deem me romantic , my dear sister , but I bitterly feel the want of a friend . I have no one near me , gentle yet cour- ageous ...
... desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me , whose eyes would reply to mine . You may deem me romantic , my dear sister , but I bitterly feel the want of a friend . I have no one near me , gentle yet cour- ageous ...
Page 12
... desire to attain , breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected . No incidents have hitherto befallen us that would make a figure in a letter . One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which ...
... desire to attain , breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected . No incidents have hitherto befallen us that would make a figure in a letter . One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which ...
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... desire of finding a friend , of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot , and expressed my convic- tion that a man could boast of little happiness who did not en- joy this blessing . " I ...
... desire of finding a friend , of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot , and expressed my convic- tion that a man could boast of little happiness who did not en- joy this blessing . " I ...
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... desire to ameliorate his fate if it were in my power . I expressed these feelings in my answer . “ I thank you , ” he replied , “ for your sympathy , but it is use- less ; my fate is nearly fulfilled . I wait but for one event , and ...
... desire to ameliorate his fate if it were in my power . I expressed these feelings in my answer . “ I thank you , ” he replied , “ for your sympathy , but it is use- less ; my fate is nearly fulfilled . I wait but for one event , and ...
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... desire to be the means of , in some degree , recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured , but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her . Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience . He strove to ...
... desire to be the means of , in some degree , recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured , but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her . Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience . He strove to ...
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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