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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1818

An 1818 Gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, told partly through letters from an explorer writing to his sister from a polar voyage, opening his account of an ambitious expedition toward the North Pole and his longing for a sympathetic friend.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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