DraculaJonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, travels to Castle Dracula in the Eastern European country of Transylvania to conclude a real estate transaction with a nobleman named Count Dracula. As Harker wends his way through the picturesque countryside, the local peasants warn him about his destination, giving him crucifixes and other charms against evil and uttering strange words that Harker later translates into "vampire." Frightened but no less determined, Harker meets the count's carriage as planned. The journey to the castle is harrowing, and the carriage is nearly attacked by angry wolves along the way. Upon arriving at the crumbling old castle, Harker finds that the elderly Dracula is a well educated and hospitable gentleman. After only a few days, however, Harker realizes that he is effectively a prisoner in the castle. |
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... eyes nor ears for the outer world . There were many things new to me : for instance , hay - ricks in the trees , and here and there very beautiful masses of weeping birch , their white stems shining like silver through the delicate ...
... eyes nor ears for the outer world . There were many things new to me : for instance , hay - ricks in the trees , and here and there very beautiful masses of weeping birch , their white stems shining like silver through the delicate ...
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... eyes , which seemed red in the lamplight , as he turned to us . He said to the driver : - " You are early to - night , my friend . " The man stam- mered in reply : - " The English Herr was in a hurry , " to which the stranger replied ...
... eyes , which seemed red in the lamplight , as he turned to us . He said to the driver : - " You are early to - night , my friend . " The man stam- mered in reply : - " The English Herr was in a hurry , " to which the stranger replied ...
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... eyes deceived me straining through the darkness . Then for a time there were no blue flames , and we sped onwards through the gloom , with the howling of the wolves around us , as though they were following in a moving circle . At last ...
... eyes deceived me straining through the darkness . Then for a time there were no blue flames , and we sped onwards through the gloom , with the howling of the wolves around us , as though they were following in a moving circle . At last ...
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... eyes and pinch myself to see if I were awake . It all seemed like a horrible nightmare to me , and I expected that I should suddenly awake , and find myself at home , with the . dawn struggling in through the windows , as I had now and ...
... eyes and pinch myself to see if I were awake . It all seemed like a horrible nightmare to me , and I expected that I should suddenly awake , and find myself at home , with the . dawn struggling in through the windows , as I had now and ...
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... eyes open . I am , I know , either being deceived , like a baby , by my own fears , or else I am in desperate straits ; and if the latter be so , I need , and shall need , all my brains to get through . I had hardly come to this ...
... eyes open . I am , I know , either being deceived , like a baby , by my own fears , or else I am in desperate straits ; and if the latter be so , I need , and shall need , all my brains to get through . I had hardly come to this ...
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