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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... kind . Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals ; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods ...
... kind . Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals ; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods ...
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... kind- hearted , and so sorrowful , and so sympathetic that I could not but be touched . I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn - yard and its crowd of picturesque figures , all crossing themselves , as they stood ...
... kind- hearted , and so sorrowful , and so sympathetic that I could not but be touched . I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn - yard and its crowd of picturesque figures , all crossing themselves , as they stood ...
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... kind , but each was given in simple good faith , with a kindly word , and a blessing , and that strange mixture of fear - meaning move- ments which I had seen outside the hotel at Bistritz - the sign of the cross and the guard against ...
... kind , but each was given in simple good faith , with a kindly word , and a blessing , and that strange mixture of fear - meaning move- ments which I had seen outside the hotel at Bistritz - the sign of the cross and the guard against ...
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... kind of people ? What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked ? Was this a customary incident in the life of a solicitor's clerk sent out to explain the pur- chase of a London estate to a foreigner ? Solicitor's clerk ...
... kind of people ? What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked ? Was this a customary incident in the life of a solicitor's clerk sent out to explain the pur- chase of a London estate to a foreigner ? Solicitor's clerk ...
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... kind , throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door . The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture , saying in excellent English , but with a strange intonation : - " Welcome ...
... kind , throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door . The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture , saying in excellent English , but with a strange intonation : - " Welcome ...
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