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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... mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye . This expedition has been the favourite dream of my early years . I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyages which have been made in the ...
... mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye . This expedition has been the favourite dream of my early years . I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyages which have been made in the ...
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... mind , whose tastes are like my own , to approve or amend my plans . How would such a friend repair the faults of your poor brother ! I am too ardent in execution and too impatient of diffi- culties . But it is a still greater evil to ...
... mind , whose tastes are like my own , to approve or amend my plans . How would such a friend repair the faults of your poor brother ! I am too ardent in execution and too impatient of diffi- culties . But it is a still greater evil to ...
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... mind . Well , these are useless complaints ; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean , nor even here in Archangel , among merchants and seamen . Yet some feelings , unallied to the dross of human nature , beat even in these ...
... mind . Well , these are useless complaints ; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean , nor even here in Archangel , among merchants and seamen . Yet some feelings , unallied to the dross of human nature , beat even in these ...
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... mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts , when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation . We per- ceived a low carriage , fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs , pass on ...
... mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts , when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation . We per- ceived a low carriage , fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs , pass on ...
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... mind whose restoration evidently de- pended upon entire repose . Once , however , the lieutenant asked why he had come so far upon the ice in so strange a vehicle . His countenance instantly assumed an aspect of the deepest gloom 16.
... mind whose restoration evidently de- pended upon entire repose . Once , however , the lieutenant asked why he had come so far upon the ice in so strange a vehicle . His countenance instantly assumed an aspect of the deepest gloom 16.
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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