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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... mind . She saw , I suppose , the doubt in my face , for she put the rosary round my neck , and said , " For your mother's sake , " and went out of the room . I am writing up this part of the diary whilst I am waiting for the coach ...
... mind . She saw , I suppose , the doubt in my face , for she put the rosary round my neck , and said , " For your mother's sake , " and went out of the room . I am writing up this part of the diary whilst I am waiting for the coach ...
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... mind about it . In the meantime I must find out all I can about Count Dracula , as it may help me to understand . To - night he may talk of himself , if I turn the conversation that way . I must be very careful , however , not to awake ...
... mind about it . In the meantime I must find out all I can about Count Dracula , as it may help me to understand . To - night he may talk of himself , if I turn the conversation that way . I must be very careful , however , not to awake ...
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... 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 be ...
... 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 be ...
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... mind , but I took a pleasure in disobeying it . The sense of sleep was upon me , and with it the obstinacy which sleep brings as outrider . The soft moonlight soothed , and the wide expanse without gave a sense of freedom which ...
... mind , but I took a pleasure in disobeying it . The sense of sleep was upon me , and with it the obstinacy which sleep brings as outrider . The soft moonlight soothed , and the wide expanse without gave a sense of freedom which ...
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... mind was not as usual ; and , from some cause or another , I had certainly been much upset . I must watch for proof . Of one thing I am glad : if it was that the Count carried me here and undressed me , he must have been hurried in his ...
... mind was not as usual ; and , from some cause or another , I had certainly been much upset . I must watch for proof . Of one thing I am glad : if it was that the Count carried me here and undressed me , he must have been hurried in his ...
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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