Author: Mary Shelley

Cites

• John Milton (2)
  • IN: The Last Man (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Let no man seek henceforth to be foretold what shall befall Him or his children.
    FROM: Paradise Lost, (1667), Poem, UK
  • IN: Frankenstein (1823) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould Me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
    FROM: Paradise Lost, (1667), Poem, UK
• Coleridge (1)
  • IN: Transformation (1831) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale, And then it set me free. Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns.
    FROM: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, (1798), Poem, UK
• Unknown (1)
  • IN: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: J'ai veu filz d'Angleterre, Richard d'Yorc nommé. Que l'on disoit en terre, estinct et consommé. Endurer grant souffrance; et par nobles exploitz. Vivre en bonne esperance, d'estre Roy des Angloys.
    FROM: Old French Chronicle, (None), NULL, France
• Ford (1)
  • IN: Lodore (1835) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the turmoil of our lives. Men are like politic states, or troubled seas. Tossed up and down with several storms and tempests. Change and variety of wrecks and fortunes; Till, labouring to the havens of our homes. We struggle for the calm that crowns our ends.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Alexander Pope (1)
  • IN: Lodore (1835) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear.
    FROM: Epistles. To Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, (1721), Poem, UK

Cited by

• Robert Harris (2)
  • IN: The Fear Index (2011) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Techno-thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK
• Gareth P. Jones (1)
  • IN: No True Echo (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), NULL, UK
• Jon Skovron (1)
  • IN: Manmade Boy (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin.
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK
• Will Hill (1)
  • IN: The Rising (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK
• C. J. Skuse (1)
  • IN: Dead Romantic (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence... the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was.
    FROM: Frankestein, (1818), Novel, UK
• Sangu Mandanna (1)
  • IN: The Lost Girl (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK
• David Gates (1)
  • IN: A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK
• Rupert Thomson (2)
  • IN: Katherine Carlyle (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Bill Loehfelm (1)
  • IN: The Devil in her Way (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have love in me the likes of which you can scarely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK
• Kevin Guilfoile (1)
  • IN: Cast Of Shadows (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The opinions which naturally spring from the character and the situation of the hero are by no means to be conceived as existing always in my own conviction; nor is any inference justly to be drawn from the following pages as prejudicing any philosophical doctrine of whatever kind.
    FROM: preface to Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK
• Peter Carey (1)
  • IN: My Life as a Fake (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: I beheld the wretch -- the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me.
    FROM: Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, (1818), Novel, UK
• Patricia Cornwell (1)
  • IN: Chaos (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape.
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK
• Lucy Hounsom (1)
  • IN: Firestorm (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK