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010. Vol. I, Letter I, pp. 2–3

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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

PML 16799

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1910

Transcription

p. 2
There, Margaret, the sun is constantly visible for more than half the year;

p. 3
ruled by different laws and in which numerous circumstances enforce a belief that the aspect of nature differs essentially from anything of which we have any experience