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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... pleasurable and half fearful , with which I am preparing to depart . I am going to un- explored regions , to " the land of mist and snow , " but I shall kill no albatross ; therefore do not be alarmed for my safety or if I should come ...
... pleasurable and half fearful , with which I am preparing to depart . I am going to un- explored regions , to " the land of mist and snow , " but I shall kill no albatross ; therefore do not be alarmed for my safety or if I should come ...
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... pleasure ; but to me , who know him , and who hear it from his own lips with what interest and sympathy shall I read it in some future day ! Even now , as I commence my task , his full - toned voice swells in my ears ; his lustrous eyes ...
... pleasure ; but to me , who know him , and who hear it from his own lips with what interest and sympathy shall I read it in some future day ! Even now , as I commence my task , his full - toned voice swells in my ears ; his lustrous eyes ...
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... pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind . Her health , and even the tranquillity of her hitherto ... pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections . I was their plaything and their idol , and something better ...
... pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind . Her health , and even the tranquillity of her hitherto ... pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections . I was their plaything and their idol , and something better ...
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... pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood , before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and nar- row reflections upon self . Besides , in drawing the picture of ...
... pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood , before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and nar- row reflections upon self . Besides , in drawing the picture of ...
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... pleasure to the baths near Thonon ; the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn . In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa . I opened it with apathy ; the theory which ...
... pleasure to the baths near Thonon ; the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn . In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa . I opened it with apathy ; the theory which ...
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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