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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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1797–1851

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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The event of these enquiries interested my understanding, I may say my imagination, until I was exalted to a kind of transport. And indeed

Vol. I, Chapter III, pp. 84–85

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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1797–1851

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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1797–1851

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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my voice became broken, my trembling hands almost refused to accomplish their task; I became as timid as a love-sick girl, and alternate tremor and passionate ardour took the place of wholesome sensation and regulated ambition.