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Gothic MoodPublished 1818

Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Pages

385

Difficulty

Approachable

Tone

Salon

Chapters

28

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Full public-domain text on Usaile, split into 28 HTML chapters for comfortable reading and search indexing. Optional PDFs remain on Project Gutenberg.

  1. Letter 1
  2. Letter 2
  3. Letter 3
  4. Letter 4
  5. Chapter 1
  6. Chapter 2
  7. Chapter 3
  8. Chapter 4
  9. Chapter 5
  10. Chapter 6
  11. Chapter 7
  12. Chapter 8
  13. Chapter 9
  14. Chapter 10
  15. Chapter 11
  16. Chapter 12
  17. Chapter 13
  18. Chapter 14
  19. Chapter 15
  20. Chapter 16
  21. Chapter 17
  22. Chapter 18
  23. Chapter 19
  24. Chapter 20
  25. Chapter 21
  26. Chapter 22
  27. Chapter 23
  28. Chapter 24
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In brief

Summary

Frankenstein remains a gothic mood touchstone — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's prose rewards attentive chapter reading on Usaile.

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Themes

GraceDistanceMercy

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