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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Frankenstein: Chapter 20

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Donate to Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Chapter 20

0:44.9

I sat one evening in my laboratory.

0:47.3

The sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea.

0:51.1

I had not sufficient light from my employment, and I remained idle.

0:56.4

In a positive consideration of whether I should leave my labor for the night, or hasten

1:00.6

its conclusion by an unremitting attention to it.

1:04.8

As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me, which led me to consider the effects

1:09.7

of what I was now doing.

1:12.9

Three years before I was engaged in the same manner, and created a fiend whose unparalleled

1:18.5

barbarity had decimated my heart, and filled it forever with the bitterest remorse.

1:25.3

I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant.

1:31.3

She might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate, and delight for its own

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