Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 10
The ninth of nine cryptograms from chapter 10 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.
Azvybvxspkjxnicgkljxafyask,voclftbvyyafolfoqaxtictkxiyfpjsafo.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyhard
- Length60 letters, 19 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 10 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Thus I relieve thee, my creator," he said, and placed his hated hands before my eyes, which I flung from me with violence; "thus I take from thee a sight which you abhor. Still thou canst listen to me and grant me thy compassion. By the virtues that I once possessed, I demand this from you. Hear my tale; it is long and strange, and the temperature of this place is not fitting to your fine sensations; come to the hut upon the mountain. The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself behind your snowy precipices and illuminate another world, you will have heard my story and can decide. On you it rests, whether I quit for ever the neighbourhood of man and lead a harmless life, or become the scourge of your fellow creatures and the author of your own speedy ruin."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
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 10easy, 93 letters
- Chapter 10hard, 50 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 75 letters
- Chapter 11medium, 52 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 17hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 75 letters
- Chapter 15hard, 67 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 60 letters
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