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 5
... hear a lot of words often repeated , queer words , for there were many nationalities in the crowd ; so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out . I must say they were not cheering to me , for amongst them ...
... hear a lot of words often repeated , queer words , for there were many nationalities in the crowd ; so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out . I must say they were not cheering to me , for amongst them ...
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... hear of it . “ No , no , " he said ; “ you must not walk here ; the dogs are too fierce " ; and then he added , with what he evidently meant for grim pleasantry - for he looked round to catch the approving smile of the rest— “ and you ...
... hear of it . “ No , no , " he said ; “ you must not walk here ; the dogs are too fierce " ; and then he added , with what he evidently meant for grim pleasantry - for he looked round to catch the approving smile of the rest— “ and you ...
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... hear , it was spoken so quietly and in so low a tone ; I thought it was " An hour less than the time . " Then turn- ing to me he said in German worse than my own : - " There is no carriage here . The Herr is not expected after all . He ...
... hear , it was spoken so quietly and in so low a tone ; I thought it was " An hour less than the time . " Then turn- ing to me he said in German worse than my own : - " There is no carriage here . The Herr is not expected after all . He ...
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... hear the rising wind , for it moaned and whistled through the rocks , and the branches of the trees crashed together as we swept along . It grew colder and colder still , and fine , powdery snow began to fall , so that soon we and all ...
... hear the rising wind , for it moaned and whistled through the rocks , and the branches of the trees crashed together as we swept along . It grew colder and colder still , and fine , powdery snow began to fall , so that soon we and all ...
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... hear my words , ' Ha , ha ! a stranger ! ' I have been so long master that I would be master still — or at least that none other should be master of me . You come to me not alone as agent of my friend Peter Hawkins , of Exeter , to tell ...
... hear my words , ' Ha , ha ! a stranger ! ' I have been so long master that I would be master still — or at least that none other should be master of me . You come to me not alone as agent of my friend Peter Hawkins , of Exeter , to tell ...
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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