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Frankenstein- or The Modern Prometheus (Oxford World's Classics)

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by Mary Shelley


  Page 205. The Greeks wept for joy: in 400 B.C., Xenophon successfully led ten thousand Greek mercenaries, supporters of a defeated Persian rebel prince, in retreat through the highlands of Armenia until they reached the sea at Trebizond.

  Page 209. manes: shades of the dead.

  Page 220. Evil thenceforth became my good: cf. Milton, Paradise Lost, iv. 110, ‘Evil, be thou my good.’

  Addendum

  Page 15. Hyperborea also figures in Shelley’s Revolt of Islam (1818), I, 47–8.

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