Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 10
The eighth of nine cryptograms from chapter 10 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.
Mqflyipyrxyida,dpxtffyiiyuvb,vghxvmxatqwvflrldhbvjxr!
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyhard
- Length50 letters, 19 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 10 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.
"Thus I relieve thee, my creator," he said, and placed his hated hands before my eyes, which I flung from me with violence; "thus I take from thee a sight which you abhor. Still thou canst listen to me and grant me thy compassion. By the virtues that I once possessed, I demand this from you. Hear my tale; it is long and strange, and the temperature of this place is not fitting to your fine sensations; come to the hut upon the mountain. The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself behind your snowy precipices and illuminate another world, you will have heard my story and can decide. On you it rests, whether I quit for ever the neighbourhood of man and lead a harmless life, or become the scourge of your fellow creatures and the author of your own speedy ruin."
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the easy one from chapter 10.
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 10easy, 63 letters
- Chapter 10easy, 93 letters
- Chapter 10hard, 60 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 75 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 10hard, 69 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 69 letters
- Chapter 9hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 16hard, 81 letters
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