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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... cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and chamelhouses. My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings. I saw how the fine form of man was ...
... cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and chamelhouses. My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings. I saw how the fine form of man was ...
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... cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture. After so much time ...
... cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture. After so much time ...
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... caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time. I knew my silence disquieted them, and I well remembered the words of my father: "I know that while you are pleased with ...
... caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time. I knew my silence disquieted them, and I well remembered the words of my father: "I know that while you are pleased with ...
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Contents
Chapter 13 | 168 |
Chapter 14 | 178 |
Chapter 15 | 187 |
Chapter 16 | 201 |
Chapter 17 | 216 |
Chapter 18 | 225 |
Chapter 19 | 238 |
Chapter 20 | 250 |
Chapter 8 | 112 |
Chapter 9 | 126 |
Chapter 10 | 136 |
Chapter 11 | 146 |
Chapter 12 | 158 |
Chapter 21 | 265 |
Chapter 22 | 281 |
Chapter 23 | 297 |
Chapter 24 | 308 |
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