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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... took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness , incapable of any exertion . His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness , but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly ...
... took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness , incapable of any exertion . His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness , but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly ...
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... took their word for all that they averred , and I became their disciple . It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century ; but while I fol- lowed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva , I was , to a ...
... took their word for all that they averred , and I became their disciple . It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century ; but while I fol- lowed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva , I was , to a ...
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... took a cursory view of the present state of the science and explained many of its ele- mentary terms . After having made a few preparatory experi- ments , he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry , the terms of which I shall ...
... took a cursory view of the present state of the science and explained many of its ele- mentary terms . After having made a few preparatory experi- ments , he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry , the terms of which I shall ...
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... took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines , instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange ...
... took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines , instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange ...
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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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