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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... morning ; should have arrived at 6:46 , but train was an hour late . Buda - Pesth seems a wonderful place , from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets . I feared to go very far from ...
... morning ; should have arrived at 6:46 , but train was an hour late . Buda - Pesth seems a wonderful place , from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets . I feared to go very far from ...
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... morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door , so I guess I must have been sleeping soundly then . I had for breakfast more paprika , and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was " mamaliga , " and ...
... morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door , so I guess I must have been sleeping soundly then . I had for breakfast more paprika , and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was " mamaliga , " and ...
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... morning has passed , and the sun is high over the distant horizon , which seems jagged , whether with trees or hills I know not , for it is so far off that big things and little are mixed . I am not sleepy , and , as I am not to be ...
... morning has passed , and the sun is high over the distant horizon , which seems jagged , whether with trees or hills I know not , for it is so far off that big things and little are mixed . I am not sleepy , and , as I am not to be ...
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... , as I had now and again felt in the morning after a day of overwork . But my flesh answered the pinching test , and my eyes were not to be deceived . I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians . All I could do now was 12.
... , as I had now and again felt in the morning after a day of overwork . But my flesh answered the pinching test , and my eyes were not to be deceived . I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians . All I could do now was 12.
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... morning . Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approach- ing behind the great door , and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light . Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive ...
... morning . Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approach- ing behind the great door , and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light . Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive ...
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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