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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... ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin . But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents , and I continued to read with the greatest ...
... ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin . But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents , and I continued to read with the greatest ...
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... ideas . When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive , when we witnessed a most violent and ter- rible thunderstorm . It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura , and the thunder burst at once with ...
... ideas . When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive , when we witnessed a most violent and ter- rible thunderstorm . It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura , and the thunder burst at once with ...
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... ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters , I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten ...
... ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters , I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten ...
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... idea of pedantry . In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension . My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain ; it gained strength as I ...
... idea of pedantry . In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension . My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain ; it gained strength as I ...
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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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