ABSTRACT
Frankenstein describes himself as a native of Geneva, born and bred up in the bosom of domestic love and affection. He remains ignorant of the contempt in which his favourites are held, until he is separated from his family to pursue his studies at the University of Ingolstadt. In a solitary expedition to the top of Mount Aveyron, undertaken to dispel the melancholy which clouded his mind, Frankenstein unexpectedly meets with the monster he had animated, who compels him to a conference and a parley. He retreats to one of the distant islands of the Orcades, that in secrecy and solitude he might resume his detestable and ill-omened labours, which were doubly hideous, since he was deprived of the enthusiasm with which he formerly prosecuted them. All treaty is broken off betwixt him and the work of his hands, and they part on terms of open and declared hatred and defiance.
