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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Page 48
... poor fellows . Oh , Mina , I am so happy that I don't know what to do with myself . And three proposals ! But , for good- ness ' sake , don't tell any of the girls , or they would be getting all sorts of extravagant ideas and imagining ...
... poor fellows . Oh , Mina , I am so happy that I don't know what to do with myself . And three proposals ! But , for good- ness ' sake , don't tell any of the girls , or they would be getting all sorts of extravagant ideas and imagining ...
Page 49
... poor fellow , whom you know loves you hon- estly , going away and looking all broken - hearted , and to know that , no matter what he may say at the moment , you are passing quite out of his life . My dear , I must stop here at present ...
... poor fellow , whom you know loves you hon- estly , going away and looking all broken - hearted , and to know that , no matter what he may say at the moment , you are passing quite out of his life . My dear , I must stop here at present ...
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... poor Dr. Seward ; so I said , as lightly as I could , that I did not know anything of hitching , and that I wasn't broken to harness at all yet . Then he said that he had spoken in a light manner , and he hoped that if he had made a ...
... poor Dr. Seward ; so I said , as lightly as I could , that I did not know anything of hitching , and that I wasn't broken to harness at all yet . Then he said that he had spoken in a light manner , and he hoped that if he had made a ...
Page 62
... poor mad friend there- a good , unselfish cause to make me work - that would be indeed happiness . Mina Murray's Journal . 26 July . — I am anxious , and it soothes me to express myself here ; it is like whispering to one's self and ...
... poor mad friend there- a good , unselfish cause to make me work - that would be indeed happiness . Mina Murray's Journal . 26 July . — I am anxious , and it soothes me to express myself here ; it is like whispering to one's self and ...
Page 63
... poor old man . When he sat down beside me , he said in a very gentle way : — " I want to say something to you , miss . " I could see he was not at ease , so I took his poor old wrinkled hand in mine Dracula 63.
... poor old man . When he sat down beside me , he said in a very gentle way : — " I want to say something to you , miss . " I could see he was not at ease , so I took his poor old wrinkled hand in mine Dracula 63.
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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