Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 23
The third of nine cryptograms from chapter 23 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.
Kexvbqkgzbsmuokduzosmunzbgsux;muguunuhszwuux,kgqvsmmvgovubhvgmovbeuxmulzvbsuhszqkxhgsmudzxlguzontqvou.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyeasy
- Length99 letters, 18 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 23 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
When I recovered I found myself surrounded by the people of the inn; their countenances expressed a breathless terror, but the horror of others appeared only as a mockery, a shadow of the feelings that oppressed me. I escaped from them to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth, my love, my wife, so lately living, so dear, so worthy. She had been moved from the posture in which I had first beheld her, and now, as she lay, her head upon her arm and a handkerchief thrown across her face and neck, I might have supposed her asleep. I rushed towards her and embraced her with ardour, but the deadly languor and coldness of the limbs told me that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished. The murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips.
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 23.
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 23easy, 93 letters
- Chapter 23hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 23easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 23easy, 87 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 17easy, 97 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 95 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 8easy, 89 letters
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