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To Mrs. Saville, England....
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by Mary Shelley · 28 chapters
Written by 18-year-old Mary Shelley, Frankenstein pioneered science fiction while asking timeless questions about creation, responsibility, and the nature of humanity.
To Mrs. Saville, England....
To Mrs. Saville, England....
To Mrs. Saville, England....
To Mrs. Saville, England....
I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situati...
We were brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute. Harmony was the soul of our companionship,...
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Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul...
I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills...
“It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I sa...