Subject for November, 2021
Chapter 14
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding as it did a number of circumstances...
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Chapter 13
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“I now hasten to the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made me what I am. “Spring advanced ra...
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Chapter 12
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“I lay on my straw, but I could not sleep. I thought of the occurrences of the day. What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people, and I longed to join them, but...
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Chapter 11
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“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 sensati...
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Chapter 10
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
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 ...
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Chapter 9
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
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...
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Chapter 8
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
We passed a few sad hours until eleven o’clock, when the trial was to commence. My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend as witnesses, I accompanied them to ...
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Chapter 7
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
On my return, I found the following letter from my father:— “My dear Victor, “You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was a...
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Chapter 6
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
Clerval then put the following letter into my hands. It was from my own Elizabeth: “My dearest Cousin, “You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letters of dear kind H...
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Chapter 5
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, ...
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