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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... sledge and guided the dogs . We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice . This appearance excited our unqualified wonder . We were , 14 LETTER 4.
... sledge and guided the dogs . We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice . This appearance excited our unqualified wonder . We were , 14 LETTER 4.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. This appearance excited our unqualified wonder . We were , as we believed , many hundred miles from any land ; but this ap- parition seemed to denote that it was not , in reality , so distant as we had ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. This appearance excited our unqualified wonder . We were , as we believed , many hundred miles from any land ; but this ap- parition seemed to denote that it was not , in reality , so distant as we had ...
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... wonder and admiration on this lovely girl , eagerly commu- nicated her history . She was not her child , but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman . Her mother was a German and had died on giving her birth . The infant had been placed ...
... wonder and admiration on this lovely girl , eagerly commu- nicated her history . She was not her child , but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman . Her mother was a German and had died on giving her birth . The infant had been placed ...
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... wonder and a mystery . He might dissect , anatomise , and give names ; but , not to speak of a final cause , causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him . I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments ...
... wonder and a mystery . He might dissect , anatomise , and give names ; but , not to speak of a final cause , causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him . I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments ...
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... wonder . A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great profi- ciency in that study ; and I , who continually sought the attain- ment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in ...
... wonder . A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great profi- ciency in that study ; and I , who continually sought the attain- ment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in ...
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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