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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... hour late . Buda - Pesth seems a wonderful place , from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets . I feared to go very far from the station , as we arrived late and would start as near ...
... hour late . Buda - Pesth seems a wonderful place , from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets . I feared to go very far from the station , as we arrived late and would start as near ...
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... hour before we began to move . It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains . What ought they to be in China ? All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind ...
... hour before we began to move . It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains . What ought they to be in China ? All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind ...
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... 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 will now come on to Bukovina , and return to - morrow or the next day ; bet ...
... 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 will now come on to Bukovina , and return to - morrow or the next day ; bet ...
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... hours . I slept till late in the day , and awoke of my own accord . When I had dressed myself I went into the room where we had supped , and found a cold breakfast laid out , with coffee kept hot by the pot being placed on the hearth ...
... hours . I slept till late in the day , and awoke of my own accord . When I had dressed myself I went into the room where we had supped , and found a cold breakfast laid out , with coffee kept hot by the pot being placed on the hearth ...
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... hours of pleasure . Through them I have come to know your great England ; and to know her is to love her . I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London , to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity , to share ...
... hours of pleasure . Through them I have come to know your great England ; and to know her is to love her . I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London , to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity , to share ...
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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