Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)

by Mary Shelley

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Alphonse Frankenstein

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BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (2003)

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?---Paradise Lost

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You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence.

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