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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... stood round the wide archway , with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard . Then our driver , whose wide linen drawers covered the whole front of the box - seat ...
... stood round the wide archway , with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard . Then our driver , whose wide linen drawers covered the whole front of the box - seat ...
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... stood out here and there against the background of late - lying snow . Sometimes , as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us , great masses of greyness , which here and there ...
... stood out here and there against the background of late - lying snow . Sometimes , as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us , great masses of greyness , which here and there ...
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... stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it , for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same . This startled me , but as the effect was only momentary , I took it that my eyes deceived me straining through the darkness ...
... stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it , for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same . This startled me , but as the effect was only momentary , I took it that my eyes deceived me straining through the darkness ...
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... stood , the driver jumped again into his seat and shook the reins ; the horses started forward , and trap and all disappeared down one of the dark openings . I stood in silence where I was , for I did not know what to do . Of bell or ...
... stood , the driver jumped again into his seat and shook the reins ; the horses started forward , and trap and all disappeared down one of the dark openings . I stood in silence where I was , for I did not know what to do . Of bell or ...
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... stood a tall old man , clean shaven save for a long white moustache , and clad in black from head to foot , without a single speck of colour about him any- where . He held in his hand an . antique silver lamp , in which the flame burned ...
... stood a tall old man , clean shaven save for a long white moustache , and clad in black from head to foot , without a single speck of colour about him any- where . He held in his hand an . antique silver lamp , in which the flame burned ...
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