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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... sleep - waking , vague , unconscious way she opened her eyes , which were now dull and hard at once , and said in a soft , voluptuous voice , such as I had never heard from her lips : - " Arthur ! Oh , my love , I am so glad you have ...
... sleep - waking , vague , unconscious way she opened her eyes , which were now dull and hard at once , and said in a soft , voluptuous voice , such as I had never heard from her lips : - " Arthur ! Oh , my love , I am so glad you have ...
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... sleep well , though my bed was comfortable enough , for I had all sorts of queer dreams . There was a dog howling ... sleeping soundly then . I had for breakfast more paprika , and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was ...
... sleep well , though my bed was comfortable enough , for I had all sorts of queer dreams . There was a dog howling ... sleeping soundly then . I had for breakfast more paprika , and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was ...
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... Sleep well to - night . At three to - morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina ; a place on it is kept for you . At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me . I trust that your journey from London has been ...
... Sleep well to - night . At three to - morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina ; a place on it is kept for you . At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me . I trust that your journey from London has been ...
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... sleep comes . There are many odd things to put down , and , lest who reads them may fancy that I dined too well before I left Bistritz , let me put down my dinner exactly . I dined on what they called " robber steak " -bits of bacon ...
... sleep comes . There are many odd things to put down , and , lest who reads them may fancy that I dined too well before I left Bistritz , let me put down my dinner exactly . I dined on what they called " robber steak " -bits of bacon ...
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... 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 speaking to him , one after the other , as though urging him 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 speaking to him , one after the other , as though urging him to ...
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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