Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 5
The fourth of four cryptograms from chapter 5 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.
Ddemkdqlwuimuuilevqrulcrldnlwel;Drucjkkolwtjcdvjroxmqwtloowvfqdqmtdu.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length67 letters, 18 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 5 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"My dear Victor," cried he, "what, for God's sake, is the matter? Do not laugh in that manner. How ill you are! What is the cause of all this?"
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Poor Clerval! What must have been his feelings? A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness. But I was not the witness of his grief, for I was lifeless and did not recover my senses for a long, long time.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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