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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... Letters - Lucy and Mina VI . Mina Murray's Journal VII . Cutting from " The Dailygraph , ” 8 August VIII . Mina Murray's Journal IX . Letter , Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra 1 12 -22 23 34 46 54 65 77 90 X. Letter , Dr. Seward to Hon ...
... Letters - Lucy and Mina VI . Mina Murray's Journal VII . Cutting from " The Dailygraph , ” 8 August VIII . Mina Murray's Journal IX . Letter , Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra 1 12 -22 23 34 46 54 65 77 90 X. Letter , Dr. Seward to Hon ...
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... Mina . In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities : Saxons in the South , and mixed with them the 1 Cutting from "The Dailygraph,” 8 August Mina Murray's Journal Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra.
... Mina . In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities : Saxons in the South , and mixed with them the 1 Cutting from "The Dailygraph,” 8 August Mina Murray's Journal Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra.
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... letter : - " My Friend . - Welcome to the Carpathians . I am anxiously expecting you . Sleep well to - night . At three to - morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina ; a place on it is kept for you . At the Borgo Pass my carriage ...
... letter : - " My Friend . - Welcome to the Carpathians . I am anxiously expecting you . Sleep well to - night . At three to - morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina ; a place on it is kept for you . At the Borgo Pass my carriage ...
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... letter which Mr. Hawkins had entrusted to me . He opened it and read it gravely ; then , with a charming smile , he handed it to me to read . One passage of it , at least , gave me a thrill of pleasure . " I must regret that an attack ...
... letter which Mr. Hawkins had entrusted to me . He opened it and read it gravely ; then , with a charming smile , he handed it to me to read . One passage of it , at least , gave me a thrill of pleasure . " I must regret that an attack ...
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... letter with them ready to post to Mr. Hawkins , he began to ask me how I had come across so suitable a place . I read to him the notes which I had made at the time , and which I inscribe here : - " At Purfleet , on a by - road , I came ...
... letter with them ready to post to Mr. Hawkins , he began to ask me how I had come across so suitable a place . I read to him the notes which I had made at the time , and which I inscribe here : - " At Purfleet , on a by - road , I came ...
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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