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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Page 18
... dear sir , even if he did he would not know what to do . Why , even the peasant that you tell me of who marked the place of the flame would not know where to look in daylight even for his own work . Even you would not , I dare be sworn ...
... dear sir , even if he did he would not know what to do . Why , even the peasant that you tell me of who marked the place of the flame would not know where to look in daylight even for his own work . Even you would not , I dare be sworn ...
Page 20
... regarding my dear new country of England less interesting , so that I may not forget how time flies by us , " and , with a courtly bow , he quickly left me . I went into my own room and drew the curtains 20 Bram Stoker.
... regarding my dear new country of England less interesting , so that I may not forget how time flies by us , " and , with a courtly bow , he quickly left me . I went into my own room and drew the curtains 20 Bram Stoker.
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... dear young friend - nay , let me warn you with all seriousness , that should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle . It is old , and has many memories , and there are bad dreams for ...
... dear young friend - nay , let me warn you with all seriousness , that should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle . It is old , and has many memories , and there are bad dreams for ...
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... dear to his heart and eye the morning can be . When the sun grew so high this morning that it struck the top of the great gateway opposite my window , the high spot which it touched seemed to me as if the dove from the ark had lighted ...
... dear to his heart and eye the morning can be . When the sun grew so high this morning that it struck the top of the great gateway opposite my window , the high spot which it touched seemed to me as if the dove from the ark had lighted ...
Page 42
... dear young friend . Not an hour shall you wait in my house against your will , though sad am I at your going , and that you so suddenly desire it . Come ! " With a stately gravity , he , with the lamp , preceded me down the stairs and ...
... dear young friend . Not an hour shall you wait in my house against your will , though sad am I at your going , and that you so suddenly desire it . Come ! " With a stately gravity , he , with the lamp , preceded me down the stairs 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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