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 28
... hope , find all things as you wish . " At the door he turned , and after a moment's pause said : — " Let me advise you , my dear young friend - nay , let me warn you with all seriousness , that should you leave these rooms you will not ...
... hope , find all things as you wish . " At the door he turned , and after a moment's pause said : — " Let me advise you , my dear young friend - nay , let me warn you with all seriousness , that should you leave these rooms you will not ...
Page 30
... hope for , that I may not go mad , if , indeed , I be not mad already . If I be sane , then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this hateful place the Count is the least dreadful to me ; that to him ...
... hope for , that I may not go mad , if , indeed , I be not mad already . If I be sane , then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this hateful place the Count is the least dreadful to me ; that to him ...
Page 31
... hope so , but I fear , for all that followed was startlingly real- so real that now sitting here in the broad , full sunlight of the morning , I cannot in the least believe that it was all sleep . I was not alone . The room was the same ...
... hope so , but I fear , for all that followed was startlingly real- so real that now sitting here in the broad , full sunlight of the morning , I cannot in the least believe that it was all sleep . I was not alone . The room was the same ...
Page 49
... hope . And then , Mina , I felt a sort of duty to tell him that there was some one . I only told him that much , and then he stood up , and he looked very strong and very grave as he took both my hands in his and said he hoped I would ...
... hope . And then , Mina , I felt a sort of duty to tell him that there was some one . I only told him that much , and then he stood up , and he looked very strong and very grave as he took both my hands in his and said he hoped I would ...
Page 58
... hope of a glorious resurrection , on July 29 , 1873 , falling from the rocks at Kettleness . This tomb was erected by his sorrowing mother to her dearly beloved son . ' He was the only son of his mother , and she was a widow . ' Really ...
... hope of a glorious resurrection , on July 29 , 1873 , falling from the rocks at Kettleness . This tomb was erected by his sorrowing mother to her dearly beloved son . ' He was the only son of his mother , and she was a widow . ' Really ...
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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