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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

A student assembles a man from the dead, then flees the room when it opens its eyes. Everything after is consequence.

Listening time
about 8 h 24 min
Length
77,754 words
First published
1818
Public domain
the author died in 1851
Edition
Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
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439 KB stored on your device
Language
English
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How it begins.

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday; and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare, and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. I am already far north of London; and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves, and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes.

Frankenstein · Mary Shelley · 1818

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