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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... mind , and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self . Besides , in draw- ing the picture of my early days , I also record those events which led , by insensible steps , to my after ...
... mind , and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self . Besides , in draw- ing the picture of my early days , I also record those events which led , by insensible steps , to my after ...
Page 74
... mind , and I re- membered them afterwards in solitude . But now , as soon as the horses arrived , I hurried into a cabriolet , and bade farewell to my friend . My journey was very melancholy . At first I wished to hurry on , for I ...
... mind , and I re- membered them afterwards in solitude . But now , as soon as the horses arrived , I hurried into a cabriolet , and bade farewell to my friend . My journey was very melancholy . At first I wished to hurry on , for I ...
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... mind was occupied by far other ideas than those of devotion and heroism , this elevation of mind had much the appearance of madness . He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child , and reverted to my tale as the effects of ...
... mind was occupied by far other ideas than those of devotion and heroism , this elevation of mind had much the appearance of madness . He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child , and reverted to my tale as the effects of ...
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