Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 4
The fourth of seven cryptograms from chapter 4 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.
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- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length89 letters, 21 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 4 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery. Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the medium one from chapter 4.
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.
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 2medium, 70 letters
- Chapter 15medium, 72 letters
- Chapter 15medium, 67 letters
- Chapter 6medium, 61 letters
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