Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 20
The ninth of eleven cryptograms from chapter 20 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.
Lbwkqwhwmdkcwarwqlnikentldai;drwmjedlkmwawawlzahthylemdaokndho,jzlTkdtnwodmdiraexlbwx.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length83 letters, 20 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 20 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Nothing could be more complete than the alteration that had taken place in my feelings since the night of the appearance of the dæmon. I had before regarded my promise with a gloomy despair as a thing that, with whatever consequences, must be fulfilled; but I now felt as if a film had been taken from before my eyes and that I for the first time saw clearly. The idea of renewing my labours did not for one instant occur to me; the threat I had heard weighed on my thoughts, but I did not reflect that a voluntary act of mine could avert it. I had resolved in my own mind that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness, and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.
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 20.
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 20medium, 67 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 20medium, 83 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 22medium, 72 letters
- Chapter 24medium, 79 letters
- Chapter 12medium, 98 letters
- Chapter 23medium, 78 letters
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