Frankenstein (Audiobook) - Down To Sleep #163
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, and welcome to Down to Sleep. |
| 0:03.3 | This is the podcast of free audiobooks and bedtime stories to help you get a good night's rest. |
| 0:08.7 | And tonight we begin Frankenstein. |
| 0:11.3 | Make sure you're following to get more free readings like this one and find everywhere else you can listen and get more books in the description for this episode. |
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| 0:32.1 | patreon.com slash down to sleep. You can find all of the links that you need in the info for this |
| 0:37.1 | episode, including a link to a 40-minute find all of the links that you need in the info for this episode, |
| 0:38.0 | including a link to a 40-minute deep dive on the Netflix adaptation and all of the symbolism |
| 0:43.8 | of Frankenstein on my YouTube channel. Let's go ahead and tuck you in. Take a nice deep breath |
| 0:50.0 | for me and let's get down to sleep. |
| 0:57.0 | Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. |
| 1:04.1 | To Mrs. Saville, England, St. Petersburg, December 11th, 17. |
| 1:09.8 | You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with |
| 1:11.2 | such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister |
| 1:18.3 | of my welfare, an increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. I am already far north |
| 1:25.8 | of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburg I feel a cold |
| 1:29.8 | northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. |
| 1:37.8 | Do you understand this feeling? |
| 1:40.6 | This breeze which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing gives me a foretaste of those icy climes inspirited by this wind of promise my day-dreams become more fervent and vivid |
| 1:54.6 | i try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation. |
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