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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... almost across the room . " Not for your life ! ” he said ; “ not for your living soul and hers ! ” -from " Dr. Seward's Diary " Contents I. Jonathan Harker's Journal II . Jonathan Harker's Journal Jonathan Harker's Journal.
... almost across the room . " Not for your life ! ” he said ; “ not for your living soul and hers ! ” -from " Dr. Seward's Diary " Contents I. Jonathan Harker's Journal II . Jonathan Harker's Journal Jonathan Harker's Journal.
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... Seward's Diary 125 XIII . Dr. Seward's Diary 140 XIV . Mina Harker's Journal XV . Dr. Seward's Diary XVI . Dr. Seward's Diary XVII . Dr. Seward's Diary XVIII . Dr. Seward's Diary XIX . Jonathan Harker's Journal XX . Jonathan Harker's ...
... Seward's Diary 125 XIII . Dr. Seward's Diary 140 XIV . Mina Harker's Journal XV . Dr. Seward's Diary XVI . Dr. Seward's Diary XVII . Dr. Seward's Diary XVIII . Dr. Seward's Diary XIX . Jonathan Harker's Journal XX . Jonathan Harker's ...
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... Seward , the lunatic - asylum man , with the strong jaw and the good forehead . He was very cool outwardly , but was nervous all the same . He had evidently been schooling himself as to all sorts of little things , and remembered them ...
... Seward , the lunatic - asylum man , with the strong jaw and the good forehead . He was very cool outwardly , but was nervous all the same . He had evidently been schooling himself as to all sorts of little things , and remembered them ...
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... Seward ; so I said , as lightly as I could , that I did not know anything of hitching , and that I wasn't broken to harness at all yet . Then he said that he had spoken in a light manner , and he hoped that if he had made a mistake in ...
... Seward ; so I said , as lightly as I could , that I did not know anything of hitching , and that I wasn't broken to harness at all yet . Then he said that he had spoken in a light manner , and he hoped that if he had made a mistake in ...
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... Seward's Diary . ( Kept in phonograph ) 25 May . -Ebb tide in appetite to - day . Cannot eat , cannot rest , so diary instead . Since my rebuff of yesterday I have a sort of empty feel- ing ; nothing in the world seems of sufficient ...
... Seward's Diary . ( Kept in phonograph ) 25 May . -Ebb tide in appetite to - day . Cannot eat , cannot rest , so diary instead . Since my rebuff of yesterday I have a sort of empty feel- ing ; nothing in the world seems of sufficient ...
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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