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 8
... 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 eastern side . There were dark , rolling clouds overhead , and in the air the heavy ...
... 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 eastern side . There were dark , rolling clouds overhead , and in the air the heavy ...
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Bram Stoker. putting out his two fingers and crossing himself . “ Give me the Herr's luggage , " said the driver ; and with exceeding alacrity my bags were handed out and put in the calèche . Then I descended from the side of the coach ...
Bram Stoker. putting out his two fingers and crossing himself . “ Give me the Herr's luggage , " said the driver ; and with exceeding alacrity my bags were handed out and put in the calèche . Then I descended from the side of the coach ...
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... give him a chance of reaching the trap . How he came there , I know not , but I heard his voice raised in a tone of imperious command , and looking towards the sound , saw him stand in the road- way . As he swept his long arms , as ...
... give him a chance of reaching the trap . How he came there , I know not , but I heard his voice raised in a tone of imperious command , and looking towards the sound , saw him stand in the road- way . As he swept his long arms , as ...
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... give me a chance to escape . I saw in his eyes something of that gathering wrath which was manifest when he hurled that fair woman from him . He explained to me that posts were few and uncertain , and that my writing now would ensure ...
... give me a chance to escape . I saw in his eyes something of that gathering wrath which was manifest when he hurled that fair woman from him . He explained to me that posts were few and uncertain , and that my writing now would ensure ...
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... give me my child ! " She threw herself on her knees , and raising up her hands , cried the same words in tones which wrung my heart . Then she tore her hair and beat her breast , and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant ...
... give me my child ! " She threw herself on her knees , and raising up her hands , cried the same words in tones which wrung my heart . Then she tore her hair and beat her breast , and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant ...
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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