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Which book has been translated and retranslated not only into all

the major European languages into many others,

Icelandic, Coptic, Maori, Maltese, Inuit, Arabic, Turkish, Persian

and Bengali !" taken by #itus Bering on his e$pedition o% to

e$plore !hat lay bet!een north&eastern 'iberia and the (orth

American continent and had a po!er%ul e%%ect on the young

Benjamin )ranklin and *ohn +uskin, besides I$ing %amiliarly cited

by a ariety -% %ictional characters, the youth%ul .aid Cop/0

%ield and the -ld 'te!ard in

Bible or one -% 'hakespeare1s plays might 'eem

likely candidates, until one adds that this t2ok has also generated an

by succession -% English pantomimes, a %ilril by

3uis Bunuel and countless allusions in cartoons, jokes and adertis&

ing2 ans!er is, -% !hich !ith

%e! other English %ictions, such as 4ullier1s Traels and Alice in

the distinction o% being kno!n about in some %orm or

other, ho!eer truncated, by millions o% r$ople !ho hae neer

read the original2 But only Mary 'helley1s )rankenstein and

Br$5 a 6uasi&myth7)

logical 'tatiB in modern in each the story is

much more !idely recognised than its author, !hose other !ritings

are, relatiely speaking, un%amiliar2

in

his day kno!n as a contro&

and pamphleteer rather than !riter,

!as an immediate success2 !ere %ie reprintings Within

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%our months -% its publication in April and

be%ore .e%r$1s death in Almost at once the noel !as pirated,

and imitated in English, and translated into

)rench, 4erman and .utch2 Within the %irst hal%&century there

appeared, trsides the tnnslations, numerotB European imitations

7the including in 4ermany alone2 And by the

end o% the %ollo!ing century there e$isted, including adaptations,