Frankenstein, or, The Modern PrometheusSever, Francis, & Company, 1869 - 177 páginas Frankenstein was published in 1818, the work of a 21-year-old genius named Mary Shelley. Hundreds of movies, adaptations, and monster masks later, its reputation remains so lively that the title has become its own word in the English language. Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, discovers the secret of reanimating the dead. After he rejects his hideous creation, not even the farthest poles of the earth will keep his bitter monster from seeking an inhuman revenge. Inspired by a uniquely Romantic view of science’s possibilities, Shelley’s masterpiece ultimately wrestles with the hidden shadows of the human mind. |
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... horror - one to make the reader dread to look round , to curdle the blood , and quicken the beatings of the heart . If I did not accomplish these things , my ghost story would be unworthy of its name . I thought and pondered -vainly . I ...
... horror - one to make the reader dread to look round , to curdle the blood , and quicken the beatings of the heart . If I did not accomplish these things , my ghost story would be unworthy of its name . I thought and pondered -vainly . I ...
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... ; he would rush away from his odious handiwork , horror - stricken . He would hope that , left to itself , the slight spark of life which he had communicated , would fade ; that this thing which had received such PREFACE . II.
... ; he would rush away from his odious handiwork , horror - stricken . He would hope that , left to itself , the slight spark of life which he had communicated , would fade ; that this thing which had received such PREFACE . II.
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... horrors . I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition , or to have feared the apparition of a spirit . Darkness had no effect upon my fancy ; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of ...
... horrors . I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition , or to have feared the apparition of a spirit . Darkness had no effect upon my fancy ; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of ...
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... pursued nature to her hiding - places . Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil , as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave , or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay ? 42 FRANKENSTEIN ; OR ,
... pursued nature to her hiding - places . Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil , as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave , or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay ? 42 FRANKENSTEIN ; OR ,
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