"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and wife of the adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters Shelley), was published in 1817, and many subsequent adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters have appeared. It is a somber psychological romance, and has a adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters power which makes it one of the most adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters books of its kind in English. The story begins adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters some letters written by Robert Walton, on a voyage adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters the North Pole, to a sister in England. He adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters of falling in with a mysterious and attractive stranger, adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters has been rescued from peril in the Northern Seas, and over adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters life appears to hang some mysterious cloud. This adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters, Frankenstein, tells to Walton the story of his adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters. He is a Genevese by birth, and from childhood has taken adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters in natural science and the occult mysteries of psychology. The reading of such adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters as Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus has fostered this tendency. He has a dear adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters sister, Elizabeth, and a close friend, Henry Clerval. At the age of seventeen he adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters a student at the University of Ingolstadt, and adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters into the investigation of the unusual adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters which attract him. Gradually he conceives the idea of creating by adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters means a living being, who, independent of the ills of the adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters, will be immortal. Like Prometheus of old, he adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters to bring down a vital spark from heaven to adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters the human frame. After a long adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters of laboratory experiments, in which he sees himself adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters approaching his goal, he succeeds. But his creation turns adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters to be not a blessing but a curse. He has made a adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters monster, who will implacably pursue Frankenstein and all his adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters ones to the dire end. It is in adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters that the unhappy scientist flees from land to land, and from sea to sea. The fiend he has brought into adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters is ever on his track, and is the evil genius of his adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters family. He murders Clerval, brings Elizabeth to an adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters end, and so preys upon the fears and adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters of Frankenstein that the latter at last succumbs to adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters. The wretched man accompanies Walton on his adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters expedition, hoping that he may throw his adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters off the scent; but finally, in an ice-bound sea, adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters out by his hideous experiences, he dies, and over his adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters body hovers the horrid shape of the man-machine. The monster then adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters over the ship’s side, and disappears in the ice and mist. The story is one of adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters gloom, but both in its invention and conduct exhibits adoptedanimatebecomesbranchesdaughterdeaddespaireditionsexistencefleshgraduallyhopesinterestleapslifelovedmechanicalmorbidnorthernoutplungespoetpursuerremarkableseriessoullessstrangertellsterrorstounquestionedunrelieveduntimelyvainwhowholewhosewithwornwriters genius. It is unique in English fiction.
(adapted from "The Reader’s Digest of Books" by Helen Rex Keller)