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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... imagination as the region of beauty and delight . There , Margaret , the sun is for ever visible , its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour . There for with your leave , my sister , I will put some ...
... imagination as the region of beauty and delight . There , Margaret , the sun is for ever visible , its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour . There for with your leave , my sister , I will put some ...
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... imaginative of modern poets . There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand . I am practically industrious painstaking , a workman to execute with perseverance and labour - but besides this there is a love for the ...
... imaginative of modern poets . There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand . I am practically industrious painstaking , a workman to execute with perseverance and labour - but besides this there is a love for the ...
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... imagination , warmed as it was , by returning with greater ardour to my former studies . It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin . But the cursory glance my father ...
... imagination , warmed as it was , by returning with greater ardour to my former studies . It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin . But the cursory glance my father ...
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... imagination and childish reasoning , till an accident again changed the current of my 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 ...
... imagination and childish reasoning , till an accident again changed the current of my 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 ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. like myself , or one of simpler organization ; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man . The ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. like myself , or one of simpler organization ; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man . The ...
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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