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. 42
overcome by fatigue, and lying down among some straw, I fell asleep.
p. 43
Night came on as I wandered with wild agitation among the hedges and fields that surrounded me; I felt chill, and darkness, which ever filled me with dread, seemed to press with double weight upon my blinded organs. I looked round for shelter