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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... lips : - " Arthur ! Oh , my love , I am so glad you have come ! Kiss me ! " Arthur bent eagerly over to kiss her ; but at that instant Van Helsing , who , like me , had been startled by her voice , swooped upon him , and catching him by ...
... lips : - " Arthur ! Oh , my love , I am so glad you have come ! Kiss me ! " Arthur bent eagerly over to kiss her ; but at that instant Van Helsing , who , like me , had been startled by her voice , swooped upon him , and catching him by ...
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... lips and sharp - looking teeth , as white as ivory . One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger's " Lenore " : " Denn die Todten reiten schnell❞— ( " For the dead travel fast . " ) - with a The strange driver ...
... lips and sharp - looking teeth , as white as ivory . One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger's " Lenore " : " Denn die Todten reiten schnell❞— ( " For the dead travel fast . " ) - with a The strange driver ...
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... lips , whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years . For the rest , his ears were pale , and at the tops extremely pointed ; the chin was broad and strong , and the cheeks firm though thin . The general ...
... lips , whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years . For the rest , his ears were pale , and at the tops extremely pointed ; the chin was broad and strong , and the cheeks firm though thin . The general ...
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... lips ran back over his gums , the long , sharp , canine teeth showed out strangely ; he answered : - www " Because your peasant is at heart a coward and a fool ! Those flames only appear on one night ; and on that night no man of this ...
... lips ran back over his gums , the long , sharp , canine teeth showed out strangely ; he answered : - www " Because your peasant is at heart a coward and a fool ! Those flames only appear on one night ; and on that night no man of this ...
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... pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips . There was something about them that made me uneasy , some longing and at the same time some deadly fear . I felt in my heart a wicked , burning desire that they would Dracula 31.
... pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips . There was something about them that made me uneasy , some longing and at the same time some deadly fear . I felt in my heart a wicked , burning desire that they would Dracula 31.
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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