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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... rest , with their big cow - boy hats , great baggy dirty - white trousers , white linen shirts , and enormous heavy leather belts , nearly a foot wide , all studded over with brass nails . They wore high boots , with their trousers ...
... rest , with their big cow - boy hats , great baggy dirty - white trousers , white linen shirts , and enormous heavy leather belts , nearly a foot wide , all studded over with brass nails . They wore high boots , with their trousers ...
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... rest— “ and you may have enough of such matters before you go to sleep . " The only stop he would make was a moment's pause to light his lamps . When it grew dark there seemed to be some excitement amongst the passengers , and they kept ...
... rest— “ and you may have enough of such matters before you go to sleep . " The only stop he would make was a moment's pause to light his lamps . When it grew dark there seemed to be some excitement amongst the passengers , and they kept ...
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... rest . ” As he was speaking , he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall , and step- ping out , took my luggage ; he had carried it in before I could forestall him . I protested but he insisted : - " Nay , sir , you are my guest . It is ...
... rest . ” As he was speaking , he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall , and step- ping out , took my luggage ; he had carried it in before I could forestall him . I protested but he insisted : - " Nay , sir , you are my guest . It is ...
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... 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 effect was one of extraordinary pallor . Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they ...
... 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 effect was one of extraordinary pallor . Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they ...
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... rest . Then he went on : - -- " I am glad you found your way in here , for I am sure there is much that will interest you . These companions ” —and he laid his hand on some of the books- " have been good friends to 16 Bram Stoker.
... rest . Then he went on : - -- " I am glad you found your way in here , for I am sure there is much that will interest you . These companions ” —and he laid his hand on some of the books- " have been good friends to 16 Bram Stoker.
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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