Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 23
The sixth of nine cryptograms from chapter 23 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.
Qefhheougotfzorbzo?Wpurqurh;Wvrahaouafhwru,fujtefwuafujjfnpuoaaqonoheoruvirgmothahefhcnoaaojdcruzo.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyeasy
- Length95 letters, 21 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 23 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
I arrived at Geneva. My father and Ernest yet lived, but the former sunk under the tidings that I bore. I see him now, excellent and venerable old man! His eyes wandered in vacancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight - his Elizabeth, his more than daughter, whom he doted on with all that affection which a man feels, who in the decline of life, having few affections, clings more earnestly to those that remain. Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs and doomed him to waste in wretchedness! He could not live under the horrors that were accumulated around him; the springs of existence suddenly gave way; he was unable to rise from his bed, and in a few days he died in my arms.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the easy one from chapter 23.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Have a proper go at it first. The solution is on a page of its own, so you won’t run into it by accident.
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 23easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 23easy, 87 letters
- Chapter 23easy, 93 letters
- Chapter 23medium, 55 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 24easy, 86 letters
- Chapter 12easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 4easy, 97 letters
- Chapter 11easy, 79 letters
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