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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... later I saw him through the chink of the hinges of the door laying the table in the dining - room , I was assured of it ; for if he does himself all these menial offices , surely it is proof that there is no one else to do them . This ...
... later I saw him through the chink of the hinges of the door laying the table in the dining - room , I was assured of it ; for if he does himself all these menial offices , surely it is proof that there is no one else to do them . This ...
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... later age again and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkey - land ; who , when he was beaten back , came again , and again , and again , though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being ...
... later age again and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkey - land ; who , when he was beaten back , came again , and again , and again , though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being ...
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... Later . -I endorse the last words written , but this time there is no doubt in question . I shall not fear to sleep in any place where he is not . I have placed the crucifix over the head of my bed - I imagine that my rest is thus freer ...
... Later . -I endorse the last words written , but this time there is no doubt in question . I shall not fear to sleep in any place where he is not . I have placed the crucifix over the head of my bed - I imagine that my rest is thus freer ...
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... Later : the Morning of 16 May . - God preserve my sanity , for to this I am reduced . Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past . Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for , that I may not go mad , if ...
... Later : the Morning of 16 May . - God preserve my sanity , for to this I am reduced . Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past . Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for , that I may not go mad , if ...
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... later letters , which would be held over at Bistritz until due time in case chance would admit of my prolonging my stay , that to oppose him would have been to create new suspicion . I therefore pretended to fall in with his views , and ...
... later letters , which would be held over at Bistritz until due time in case chance would admit of my prolonging my stay , that to oppose him would have been to create new suspicion . I therefore pretended to fall in with his views , and ...
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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