Vol. I, Chapter III, pp. 82–83

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1910

PML 16799
Vol. I, pp. 82–83
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The event of these enquiries interested my understanding, I may say my imagination, until I was exalted to a kind of transport. And indeed