Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 22
The eighth of ten cryptograms from chapter 22 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
Lknpvnpjbtvjjyborijjykeylkqapjlobyzewbevbolsissbpevlqiqarkekijrvoslnekqb.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length72 letters, 18 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 22 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"None on earth. I love Elizabeth and look forward to our union with delight. Let the day therefore be fixed; and on it I will consecrate myself, in life or death, to the happiness of my cousin."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Such were the lessons of my father. But to me the remembrance of the threat returned; nor can you wonder that, omnipotent as the fiend had yet been in his deeds of blood, I should almost regard him as invincible, and that when he had pronounced the words "I shall be with you on your wedding-night," I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable. But death was no evil to me if the loss of Elizabeth were balanced with it, and I therefore, with a contented and even cheerful countenance, agreed with my father that if my cousin would consent, the ceremony should take place in ten days, and thus put, as I imagined, the seal to my fate.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 22medium, 94 letters
- Chapter 22medium, 91 letters
- Chapter 22easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 22hard, 62 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 24medium, 79 letters
- Chapter 12medium, 98 letters
- Chapter 23medium, 78 letters
- Chapter 20medium, 72 letters
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