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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... asked the waiter , and he said it was called “ paprika hendl , " and that , as it was a national dish , I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians . I found my smattering of German very useful here ; indeed , I don't know ...
... asked the waiter , and he said it was called “ paprika hendl , " and that , as it was a national dish , I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians . I found my smattering of German very useful here ; indeed , I don't know ...
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... asked him if he knew Count Dracula , and could tell me anything of his castle , both he and his wife crossed themselves , and , saying that they knew nothing at all , simply refused to speak further . It was so near the time of starting ...
... asked him if he knew Count Dracula , and could tell me anything of his castle , both he and his wife crossed themselves , and , saying that they knew nothing at all , simply refused to speak further . It was so near the time of starting ...
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... asking many questions . When I told her that I must go at once , and that I was engaged on important business , she asked again : " Do you know what day it is ? " I answered that it was the fourth of May . She shook her head as she said ...
... asking many questions . When I told her that I must go at once , and that I was engaged on important business , she asked again : " Do you know what day it is ? " I answered that it was the fourth of May . She shook her head as she said ...
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... forward , and on each side the passengers , craning over the edge of the coach , peered eagerly into the darkness . It was evident that something very exciting was either happening or expected , but though I asked each passenger Dracula 7.
... forward , and on each side the passengers , craning over the edge of the coach , peered eagerly into the darkness . It was evident that something very exciting was either happening or expected , but though I asked each passenger Dracula 7.
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Bram Stoker. happening or expected , but though I asked each passenger , no one would give me the slightest explanation . This state of excitement kept on for some little time ; and at last we saw before us the Pass opening out on the ...
Bram Stoker. happening or expected , but though I asked each passenger , no one would give me the slightest explanation . This state of excitement kept on for some little time ; and at last we saw before us the Pass opening out on the ...
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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