DraculaIt is perhaps one of the best known and most influential novels in all of literature: 1897's Dracula didn't merely inspire countless adaptations for stage and film, it invented an entire genre of horror: the vampire story, which continues to evolve today into wildly varied directions, from noir detective pastiches (the vampire as night-owl P.I.) to tween romances (the vampire as dreamy but distant boyfriend). Anyone who wants to know where it all began must read this 1897 work, still startling and still terrifying even today. The story of English solicitor Jonathan Harker and his strange new client, Transylvanian aristocrat Count Dracula, this is the classic work of Victorian gothic horror, the continuing eerie wellspring of many of our cultural fantasies and nightmares. Irish author ABRAHAM STOKER (1847-1912) worked for more than a quarter of a century as manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which drew him into London's literary and artists circles; he was a friend of such luminaries as writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Stoker is also the author of The Lair of the White Worm (1911), among other books. |
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... Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovina - it has had a very stormy exis- tence , and it certainly shows marks of it . Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place , which made terrible havoc on five separate occasions . At the very ...
... Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovina - it has had a very stormy exis- tence , and it certainly shows marks of it . Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place , which made terrible havoc on five separate occasions . At the very ...
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... Borgo Pass . One by one several of the passengers offered me gifts , which they pressed upon me with an earnestness which would take no denial ; these were certainly of an odd and varied kind , but each was given in simple good faith ...
... Borgo Pass . One by one several of the passengers offered me gifts , which they pressed upon me with an earnestness which would take no denial ; these were certainly of an odd and varied kind , but each was given in simple good faith ...
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... Borgo Pass to meet the diligence from Bukovina to Bistritz . But I am in hopes that I shall see more of you at Castle Dracula . " I suspected him , and determined to test his sincerity . Sincerity ! It seems like a profanation of the ...
... Borgo Pass to meet the diligence from Bukovina to Bistritz . But I am in hopes that I shall see more of you at Castle Dracula . " I suspected him , and determined to test his sincerity . Sincerity ! It seems like a profanation of the ...
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Contents
Letter Dr Seward to Hon Arthur Holmwood | 98 |
Lucy Westenras Diary | 109 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 230 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 259 |
Dr Sewards Phonograph Diary spoken by Van Helsing | 270 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 276 |
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