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Н.В. Демидова,Мэри Уолстонкрафт Шелли

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus / Франкенштейн, или Современный Прометей. Книга для чтения на английском языке

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Frankenstein by Mary Shelley — Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Mary Shelley’.

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* The complete unabridged text of ‘Frankenstein by Mary Shelley — Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’
* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Shelley’s works
* Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook
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304 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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  • b6019885071has quoted3 years ago
    When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it. Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour. I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man. The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed. I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success. Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability. It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being. As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large. After having formed this determination and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.
  • Андрей Владисловhas quoted5 years ago
    But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.

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