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 4
... feel comfortable . However , there was business to be done , and I could allow nothing to interfere with it . I ... feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual . If this book should ever reach Mina before I do , let it bring my good - bye ...
... feel comfortable . However , there was business to be done , and I could allow nothing to interfere with it . I ... feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual . If this book should ever reach Mina before I do , let it bring my good - bye ...
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... feeling came over me ; but a cloak was thrown over my shoulders , and a rug across my knees , and the driver said in excellent German : - " The night is chill , mein Herr , and my master the Count bade me take all care of you . There is ...
... feeling came over me ; but a cloak was thrown over my shoulders , and a rug across my knees , and the driver said in excellent German : - " The night is chill , mein Herr , and my master the Count bade me take all care of you . There is ...
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... feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can under- stand their true import . All at once the wolves began to howl as though the moonlight had had some peculiar effect on them . The horses jumped about and reared , and ...
... feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can under- stand their true import . All at once the wolves began to howl as though the moonlight had had some peculiar effect on them . The horses jumped about and reared , and ...
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... feeling of nausea came over me , which , do what I would , I could not conceal . The Count , evidently noticing it , drew back ; and with a grim sort of smile , which showed more than he had yet done his protuberant teeth , sat himself ...
... feeling of nausea came over me , which , do what I would , I could not conceal . The Count , evidently noticing it , drew back ; and with a grim sort of smile , which showed more than he had yet done his protuberant teeth , sat himself ...
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... feel uneasy . I wish I were safe out of it , or that I had never come . It may be that this strange night ... feeling that I could not sleep any more , got up . I had hung my shaving glass by the window , and was just beginning to shave ...
... feel uneasy . I wish I were safe out of it , or that I had never come . It may be that this strange night ... feeling that I could not sleep any more , got up . I had hung my shaving glass by the window , and was just beginning to shave ...
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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