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An author is struck with inspiration for this novel while walking naked in the rain in a 2019 Jeanette Winterson book. In this novel, the protagonist’s father derides the writings of Cornelius Agrippa as “sad (20[1])trash.” (20[3])The innermost nested story in this novel describes how the Turkishwoman Safie is (20[1])saved by Felix de Lacey, whose family leaves out copies of Paradise Lost and Plutarch’s Lives. This novel was written with John (*) Polidori’s story The Vampyre as part of a contest in the Villa Diodati during the “Year Without a Summer.” Letters by Captain Walton recount finding this novel’s protagonist trying to avenge his wife Elizabeth on an Arctic ice sheet, chasing the Creature he brought to life. For 10 points, name this Mary Shelley novel. ■END■

ANSWER: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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