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Shellys gothic fiction is written in epistolary form as a means of correspondence between the failed writer robert walton and his sister, while he is away on a dangerous expedition in search of fame. Pdf aeschylus and frankenstein, or the modern prometheus. Frankenstein mary shelley 1818 contents preface v volume i 3 letter i 3 letter ii 9 letter iii letter iv 15 chapter i 23 chapter ii 33 chapter iii 41 chapter iv 49 chapter v 57 chapter vi 67 iv chapter vii 79 volume ii 91 chapter i 91 chapter ii 99 chapter iii 107 chapter iv 117. Hes ugly and different and alone, and now he really knows it. Frankenstein is a novel by mary shelley that was first published in 1818.

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