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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... leave , my sister , I will put some trust in preceding navigators — there snow and frost are banished ; and , sailing over a calm sea , we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on ...
... leave , my sister , I will put some trust in preceding navigators — there snow and frost are banished ; and , sailing over a calm sea , we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on ...
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... leaving her the sea - room in which she floated . Our situation was somewhat dangerous , especially as we were compassed round by a very thick fog . We accordingly lay to , hoping that some change would take place in the atmosphere and ...
... leaving her the sea - room in which she floated . Our situation was somewhat dangerous , especially as we were compassed round by a very thick fog . We accordingly lay to , hoping that some change would take place in the atmosphere and ...
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... leaving her an orphan and a beggar . This last blow overcame her , and she knelt by Beaufort's coffin weeping bitterly , when my father entered the chamber . He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl , who committed herself to ...
... leaving her an orphan and a beggar . This last blow overcame her , and she knelt by Beaufort's coffin weeping bitterly , when my father entered the chamber . He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl , who committed herself to ...
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... father a respite of some weeks . It appeared to me sacrilege so soon to leave the repose , akin to death , of the house of mourning and to rush into the thick of life . I was new to sor- row , but it did not the less alarm me 37.
... father a respite of some weeks . It appeared to me sacrilege so soon to leave the repose , akin to death , of the house of mourning and to rush into the thick of life . I was new to sor- row , but it did not the less alarm me 37.
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... mechanism . He also gave me the list of books which I had re- quested , and I took my leave . Thus ended a day memorable to me ; it decided my future destiny . CHAPTER 4 From this day natural philosophy , and particularly 44.
... mechanism . He also gave me the list of books which I had re- quested , and I took my leave . Thus ended a day memorable to me ; it decided my future destiny . CHAPTER 4 From this day natural philosophy , and particularly 44.
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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