Classic sci-fi novel whose title character is a mad scientist

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Victor Frankenstein, half proud and half horrified at the work of his own hands, has more than once told me that I am eight feet tall.

Logic-and perhaps other things as well-assure me that this is the room at the top of the house where the student Victor Frankenstein then lodged, in an old and quiet quarter of the Bavarian university town of Ingolstadt,-where he lodged, and where he did his secret work.

It was, of course, none other than Victor Frankenstein who lay before me, though I did not yet know his name.

It came at the end of a flight of nearly a year, that had begun in Paris when I realized that Franklin was unable to help me, and that my enemies, Frankenstein among them, were closing in on me again.

Clerval again accompanied him, and this time another young man, a few years older than Clerval and Frankenstein, was with them.

I think he was a little disappointed that Frankenstein could not assure him that I would be content to share the horses rations.

Victor Frankenstein had not created me from nothing, or from the dust of the earth.

In some ways-the rocks and grass, the uninhabited distances, the dearth of trees-this territory reminds me of that other seagirt land of evil memory, to which I was brought by Frankenstein and by his mentor Saville, a man more evil than himself, to be their slave, their accomplice, their companion-it would take a long list of words to exhaust all the possibilities of what I was to them at one time and another.

It was unlike Frankenstein to be so imprecise in matters of measurement, and I was sure that he had told me several times that he had formed me with a height of eight feet exactly.

Robert Walton captain, and Roger Saville, her owner, on board along with Victor Frankenstein, Henry Clerval, and myself.

He strove to implant this vision in the minds of Frankenstein and the others, and kept coming back again and again to the specification that all the workers ultimately produced must not only be docile, strong, and enduring, but should be able to subsist, like swine or goats, on acorns and other inexpensive roughage, with now and then a handful of berries as reward for some particularly difficult labor.

By raising this point he usually managed to awaken a twinge of conscience in Frankenstein, and got at least soothing agreement from the others.

The plan, or that part of it of which I was condescendingly informed, called for Clerval to remain on board to keep an eye on me, whilst Frankenstein and Saville were escorted ashore by Captain Walton, who claimed to be able to conduct them promptly to certain men with whom they would be able to do business.

To duplicate his feat of creation, Frankenstein would need laboratory equipment-he had brought very little with him from Bavaria.

By the light of a cheap tallow candle, I could see two landsmen, both rather scruffy-looking, seated at a table with Frankenstein and Saville, while Walton stood by with folded arms.