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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... began to move . It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains . What ought they to be in China ? All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind . Sometimes we ...
... began to move . It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains . What ought they to be in China ? All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind . Sometimes we ...
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... began to sink , we saw now and again the white gleam of falling water . One of my companions touched my arm as we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty , snow - covered peak of a mountain , which seemed , as we wound on ...
... began to sink , we saw now and again the white gleam of falling water . One of my companions touched my arm as we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty , snow - covered peak of a mountain , which seemed , as we wound on ...
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... began to get very cold , and the growing twilight seemed to merge into one dark mistiness the gloom of the trees , oak , beech , and pine , though in the valleys which ran deep between the spurs of the hills , as we ascended through the ...
... began to get very cold , and the growing twilight seemed to merge into one dark mistiness the gloom of the trees , oak , beech , and pine , though in the valleys which ran deep between the spurs of the hills , as we ascended through the ...
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... began to neigh and snort and plunge wildly , so that the driver had to hold them up . Then , amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing of themselves , a calèche , with four horses , drove up behind us , over ...
... began to neigh and snort and plunge wildly , so that the driver had to hold them up . Then , amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing of themselves , a calèche , with four horses , drove up behind us , over ...
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... began , which seemed to come from all over the country , as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night . At the first howl the horses began to strain and rear , but the driver spoke to them soothingly , and ...
... began , which seemed to come from all over the country , as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night . At the first howl the horses began to strain and rear , but the driver spoke to them soothingly , and ...
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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