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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... When I had finished , he said : - " I am glad that it is old and big . I myself am of an old family , and to live in a new house would kill me . A house cannot be made habitable in a day ; and , after all , how Dracula 19.
... When I had finished , he said : - " I am glad that it is old and big . I myself am of an old family , and to live in a new house would kill me . A house cannot be made habitable in a day ; and , after all , how Dracula 19.
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... live on here there is but one thing to hope for , that I may not go mad , if , indeed , I be not mad already . If I be sane , then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this hateful place the Count is ...
... live on here there is but one thing to hope for , that I may not go mad , if , indeed , I be not mad already . If I be sane , then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this hateful place the Count is ...
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... lives whilst their gentle breasts were sad for their menfolk away in the midst of remorseless wars . I drew a great couch out of its place near the corner , so that as I lay , I could look at the lovely view to east and south , and ...
... lives whilst their gentle breasts were sad for their menfolk away in the midst of remorseless wars . I drew a great couch out of its place near the corner , so that as I lay , I could look at the lovely view to east and south , and ...
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... live , lest I be dangerous to him ; my only chance is to prolong my opportunities . Something may occur which will give me a chance to escape . I saw in his eyes something of that gathering wrath which was manifest when he hurled that ...
... live , lest I be dangerous to him ; my only chance is to prolong my opportunities . Something may occur which will give me a chance to escape . I saw in his eyes something of that gathering wrath which was manifest when he hurled that ...
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... lives as he can , and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way . He gave many flies to one spider ... lives he values a man , or if at only one . He has closed the account most accurately , and to - day begun a new ...
... lives as he can , and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way . He gave many flies to one spider ... lives he values a man , or if at only one . He has closed the account most accurately , and to - day begun a new ...
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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