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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... light ? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever . I shall satiate my ...
... light ? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever . I shall satiate my ...
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... light , I went upon deck and found all the sailors busy on one side of the ves- sel , apparently talking to someone in the sea . It was , in fact , a sledge , like that we had seen before , which had drifted towards us in the night on a ...
... light , I went upon deck and found all the sailors busy on one side of the ves- sel , apparently talking to someone in the sea . It was , in fact , a sledge , like that we had seen before , which had drifted towards us in the night on a ...
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... light seemed to dawn upon my mind , and bounding with joy , I communicated my discovery to my father . My father looked carelessly at the title page of my book and said , " Ah ! Cornelius Agrippa ! My dear Victor , do not waste your ...
... light seemed to dawn upon my mind , and bounding with joy , I communicated my discovery to my father . My father looked carelessly at the title page of my book and said , " Ah ! Cornelius Agrippa ! My dear Victor , do not waste your ...
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... light vanished , the oak had disappeared , and nothing remained but a blasted stump . When we visited it the next morning , we found the tree shattered in a singular manner . It was not splintered by the shock , but entirely reduced to ...
... light vanished , the oak had disappeared , and nothing remained but a blasted stump . When we visited it the next morning , we found the tree shattered in a singular manner . It was not splintered by the shock , but entirely reduced to ...
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... light . The labours of men of genius , however erroneously dir- ected , scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid ad- vantage of mankind . ” I listened to his statement , which was de- livered without any presumption or ...
... light . The labours of men of genius , however erroneously dir- ected , scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid ad- vantage of mankind . ” I listened to his statement , which was de- livered without any presumption or ...
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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