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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... coming through France and Germany , with short jackets and round hats and home - made trousers ; but others were very picturesque . The women looked pretty , except when you got near them , but they were very clumsy about the waist ...
... coming through France and Germany , with short jackets and round hats and home - made trousers ; but others were very picturesque . The women looked pretty , except when you got near them , but they were very clumsy about the waist ...
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... coming peasants , the Cszeks with their white , and the Slovaks with their coloured , sheepskins , the latter carrying lance - fashion their long staves , with axe at end . As the evening fell it began to get very cold , and the growing ...
... coming peasants , the Cszeks with their white , and the Slovaks with their coloured , sheepskins , the latter carrying lance - fashion their long staves , with axe at end . As the evening fell it began to get very cold , and the growing ...
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... coming of the morning . Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approach- ing behind the great door , and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light . Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the ...
... coming of the morning . Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approach- ing behind the great door , and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light . Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the ...
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... coming dawn . There seemed a strange stillness over everything ; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves . The Count's eyes gleamed , and he said : — " Listen to them - the children of ...
... coming dawn . There seemed a strange stillness over everything ; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves . The Count's eyes gleamed , and he said : — " Listen to them - the children of ...
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... coming on the rocks above the passes , that they might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches . When the invader was triumphant he found but little , for whatever there was had been sheltered in the friendly soil ...
... coming on the rocks above the passes , that they might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches . When the invader was triumphant he found but little , for whatever there was had been sheltered in the friendly soil ...
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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