Breaking: Mysterious Events Unfold at Northern Estate
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by Mary Shelley · 29 chapters
Written by 18-year-old Mary Shelley, Frankenstein pioneered science fiction while asking timeless questions about creation, responsibility, and the nature of humanity.
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To Mrs. Saville, England....
To Mrs. Saville, England....
To Mrs. Saville, England....
To Mrs. Saville, England....
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 several public situati...
We passed a few sad hours until eleven o’clock, when the trial was to commence. My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend as witnesses, I accompanied them to the court. During the w...
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul...
I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills...