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Literature resource center author resource pages an excerpt from a study of frankenstein. Frankenstein by mary shelley, 9780451532244, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Or the modern prometheus warns against the advancements of modern man and the industrial revolution. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in london on 1 january 1818, when she was 20.
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