Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 22
The fourth 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.
Fusvaimkysawadarpsabvfysvwans,bansvenyfkacfsnzqa;las,ntnfk,Frmkyfbawabevasvawilinwwfntaempqbvnysakilunsa.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyeasy
- Length100 letters, 21 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.
This letter revived in my memory what I had before forgotten, the threat of the fiend - "I will be with you on your wedding-night!" Such was my sentence, and on that night would the dæmon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings. On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death. Well, be it so; a deadly struggle would then assuredly take place, in which if he were victorious I should be at peace and his power over me be at an end. If he were vanquished, I should be a free man. Alas! What freedom? Such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free. Such would be my liberty except that in my Elizabeth I possessed a treasure, alas, balanced by those horrors of remorse and guilt which would pursue me until death.
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 22.
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, 83 letters
- Chapter 22easy, 64 letters
- Chapter 22easy, 80 letters
- Chapter 22medium, 94 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 15easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 23easy, 95 letters
- Chapter 24easy, 86 letters
- Chapter 12easy, 99 letters
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