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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... Count Dracula , is a fairly well - known place . I shall enter here some of my notes , as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina . In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities ...
... Count Dracula , is a fairly well - known place . I shall enter here some of my notes , as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina . In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities ...
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... Count all about them . ) I did not sleep well , though my bed was comfortable enough , for I had all sorts of queer dreams . There was a dog howling all night under my window , which may have had something to do with it ; or it may have ...
... Count all about them . ) I did not sleep well , though my bed was comfortable enough , for I had all sorts of queer dreams . There was a dog howling all night under my window , which may have had something to do with it ; or it may have ...
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... Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel , which I found , to my great delight , to be thoroughly old - fashioned , for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country . I was evidently expected ...
... Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel , which I found , to my great delight , to be thoroughly old - fashioned , for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country . I was evidently expected ...
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... Count about these superstitions . ) When we started , the crowd round the inn door , which had by this time swelled to a considerable size , all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me . With some difficulty I got ...
... Count about these superstitions . ) When we started , the crowd round the inn door , which had by this time swelled to a considerable size , all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me . With some difficulty I got ...
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... Count . Each moment I ex- pected to see the glare of lamps through the blackness ; but all was dark . The only light was the flickering rays of our own lamps , in which the steam from our hard driven horses rose in a white cloud . We ...
... Count . Each moment I ex- pected to see the glare of lamps through the blackness ; but all was dark . The only light was the flickering rays of our own lamps , in which the steam from our hard driven horses rose in a white cloud . We ...
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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