Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion."

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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.11

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, best known for her groundbreaking work 'Frankenstein', which explores themes of creation and humanity.

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