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 10
... keep them from bolting . In a few minutes , however , my own ears got accustomed to the sound , and the horses so far became quiet that the driver was able to descend and to stand before them . He pet- ted and soothed them , and ...
... keep them from bolting . In a few minutes , however , my own ears got accustomed to the sound , and the horses so far became quiet that the driver was able to descend and to stand before them . He pet- ted and soothed them , and ...
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... am all in a sea of wonders . I doubt ; I fear ; I think strange things , which I dare not confess to my own soul . God keep me , if only for the sake of those dear to me ! I 7 May . — It is again early morning Dracula 15.
... am all in a sea of wonders . I doubt ; I fear ; I think strange things , which I dare not confess to my own soul . God keep me , if only for the sake of those dear to me ! I 7 May . — It is again early morning Dracula 15.
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... keep , and is close to an old chapel or church . I could not enter it , as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house , but I have taken with my kodak views of it from vari- ous points . The house has been added to but ...
... keep , and is close to an old chapel or church . I could not enter it , as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house , but I have taken with my kodak views of it from vari- ous points . The house has been added to but ...
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... keep my knowledge and my fears to myself , and my eyes open . I am , I know , either being deceived , like a baby , by my own fears , or else I am in desperate straits ; and if the latter be so , I need , and shall need , all my brains ...
... keep my knowledge and my fears to myself , and my eyes open . I am , I know , either being deceived , like a baby , by my own fears , or else I am in desperate straits ; and if the latter be so , I need , and shall need , all my brains ...
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... keep my mind occupied , went over some of the matters I had been examined in at Lincoln's Inn . There was a cer- tain method in the Count's inquiries , so I shall try to put them down in sequence ; the knowledge may somehow or some time ...
... keep my mind occupied , went over some of the matters I had been examined in at Lincoln's Inn . There was a cer- tain method in the Count's inquiries , so I shall try to put them down in sequence ; the knowledge may somehow or some time ...
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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