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 | |  | | E-book Category: Classic, Fiction, Horror E-book Title: Frankenstein Author: Mary Shelley Book Description: Letter 1 To Mrs. Saville, European country
St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- You wish rejoice to hear that no disaster has attended
the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my 1st task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a expectation of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk simply encircling the horizon and diffusive a perpetual splendour. There--for with your leave, my sister, I wish put several trust in preceding navigators-- there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region so far discovered on the inhabitable globe. Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies doubtless are in those undiscovered solitudes. What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? I may there learn the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their apparent eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the earth ne'er
before visited, and may tread a land ne'er
before imprinted by the foot of man. These are my enticements, and they are adequate
to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this labourious voyage with the joy a child feels once
he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river. But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the incomputable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so galore months are requisite; or by ascertaining the private secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be accomplished by an undertaking such as mine. These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so more to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This expedition has been the favourite dream of my early years. I have see with ardour the accounts of the various voyages which have been ready-made in the prospect of inbound at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole. You may remember that a history of all the voyages ready-made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our nice Uncle Thomas' library. My education was neglected, yet I was stormily fond of reading. These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them accrued that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had out my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.More... | 
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