Subject for November, 2021
Chapter 4
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. I read with ardour those works, so f...
Tags:
Chapter 3
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but m...
Tags:
Chapter 2
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
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...
Tags:
Chapter 1
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
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...
Tags:
Letter 4
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
To Mrs. Saville, England. August 5th, 17—. So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before...
Tags:
Letter 3
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
To Mrs. Saville, England. July 7th, 17—. My dear Sister, I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by a m...
Tags:
Letter 2
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
To Mrs. Saville, England. Archangel, 28th March, 17—. How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow! Yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. I...
Tags:
Letter 1
Subject: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
To Mrs. Saville, England. St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded wi...
Tags: