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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... heart to see it — the Law List . Whilst I was looking at the books , the door opened , and the Count entered . He saluted me in a hearty way , and hoped that I had had a good night's rest . Then he went on : - -- " I am glad you found ...
... heart to see it — the Law List . Whilst I was looking at the books , the door opened , and the Count entered . He saluted me in a hearty way , and hoped that I had had a good night's rest . Then he went on : - -- " I am glad you found ...
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... heart a coward and a fool ! Those flames only appear on one night ; and on that night no man of this land will , if he can help it , stir without his doors . And , dear sir , even if he did he would not know what to do . Why , even the ...
... heart a coward and a fool ! Those flames only appear on one night ; and on that night no man of this land will , if he can help it , stir without his doors . And , dear sir , even if he did he would not know what to do . Why , even the ...
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... heart , through weary years of mourning over the dead , is not attuned to mirth . Moreover , the walls of my castle are broken ; the shadows are many , and the wind breathes cold through the broken bat- tlements and casements . I love ...
... heart , through weary years of mourning over the dead , is not attuned to mirth . Moreover , the walls of my castle are broken ; the shadows are many , and the wind breathes cold through the broken bat- tlements and casements . I love ...
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... heart to describe beauty , for when I had seen the view I explored further ; doors , doors , doors everywhere , and all locked and bolted . In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit . The castle is ...
... heart to describe beauty , for when I had seen the view I explored further ; doors , doors , doors everywhere , and all locked and bolted . In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit . The castle is ...
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... heart to conduct it ? Again , when , after the battle of Mohács , we threw off the Hungarian yoke , we of the ... heart's blood , their brains , and their swords - can boast a record that mushroom growths like the Hapsburgs and the ...
... heart to conduct it ? Again , when , after the battle of Mohács , we threw off the Hungarian yoke , we of the ... heart's blood , their brains , and their swords - can boast a record that mushroom growths like the Hapsburgs and the ...
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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