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Posted to Wiretap in August 1993, as franken.txt.
Italics are represented as _Italics_.
Originally written in 1818, this is from a 1973
reprinting of the 1912 Everyman's edition, of which
only the introduction is copyright (c)1963 by
J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London; Shelley died in 1851.
This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Mary W. Shelley
Frankenstein
Dent: London
Everyman's Library
Dutton: New York
First included in Everyman's Library 1912
Last reprinted 1973
Preface
THE event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed,
by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of
Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be
supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to
such an imagination; yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work
of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely weaving a
series of supernatural terrors. The event on which the
interest of the story depends is exempt from the disadvantages
of a mere tale of spectres or enchantment. It was recommended
by the novelty of the situations which it developes; and,
however impossible as a physical fact, affords a point of view
to the imagination for the delineating of human passions more
comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary
relations of existing events can yield.
I have thus endeavoured to preserve the truth of the elementary
principles
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