Frankenstein, Or, The Modern PrometheusFrankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19. She infused this original novel with Gothic and Romantic elements. Scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a large and powerful creature in the likeness of man, but is disgusted by his own creation and he abandons the being to fend for itself. Spawning generations of horror stories in the genre, Frankenstein is a gruesome warning against playing God and attempting the engineering of life. |
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Page 74
... journey was very melancholy . At first I wished to hurry on , for I longed to console and sympathise with my loved and sorrowing friends ; but when I drew near my native town , I slackened my progress . I could hardly sus- tain the ...
... journey was very melancholy . At first I wished to hurry on , for I longed to console and sympathise with my loved and sorrowing friends ; but when I drew near my native town , I slackened my progress . I could hardly sus- tain the ...
Page 173
... journey , and he hoped that change of scene and varied amusement would , before my return , have restored me entirely to myself . The duration of my absence was left to my own choice ; a few months , or at most a year , was the period ...
... journey , and he hoped that change of scene and varied amusement would , before my return , have restored me entirely to myself . The duration of my absence was left to my own choice ; a few months , or at most a year , was the period ...
Page 238
... journey across the moun- tainous ices of the ocean - amidst cold that few of the in- habitants could long endure , and which I , the native of a genial and sunny climate , could not hope to survive . Yet at the idea that the fiend ...
... journey across the moun- tainous ices of the ocean - amidst cold that few of the in- habitants could long endure , and which I , the native of a genial and sunny climate , could not hope to survive . Yet at the idea that the fiend ...
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