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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... taken towards my enter- prise . I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors ; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage . But I have one ...
... taken towards my enter- prise . I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors ; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage . But I have one ...
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... mine , which I have communicated to him without disguise . He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it . I was easily led 18.
... mine , which I have communicated to him without disguise . He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it . I was easily led 18.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. had taken to secure it . I was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the language of my heart , to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul and to say , with all the fervour that warmed me ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. had taken to secure it . I was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the language of my heart , to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul and to say , with all the fervour that warmed me ...
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... taken effectual measures to conceal himself , and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode . Overjoyed at this discovery , he hastened to the house , which was situated in a mean street near the Reuss . But when he ...
... taken effectual measures to conceal himself , and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode . Overjoyed at this discovery , he hastened to the house , which was situated in a mean street near the Reuss . But when he ...
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... taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been intro- duced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient , because the powers of the latter ...
... taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been intro- duced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient , because the powers of the latter ...
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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