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"Frankenstein" is an 1818 novel by English writer Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley. (US
Edition) (UK Edition) She was 21 in 1818. It was revised in 1831 and that became the popular
edition that is usually read today. This
is that 1831 edition, free for Amazon Kindle readers.
I am already far north of London,
and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play
upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you
understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions
towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes.
Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid.
I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and
desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty
and delight.
Not to worry, this is not a travel book, it is the horror
story you know . . .
My promise fulfilled, the monster
would depart forever. Or (so my fond fancy imaged) some accident might
meanwhile occur to destroy him and put an end to my slavery forever.
This is an epistolary novel, written in letter form. It is considered an early form of science
fiction by a writer who was part of the Romantic movement and who also wrote in
the Gothic style. That is a lot to put
on one book - but it is a special novel.
It has to be to have lived so long and to have gone through so many incarnations.
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