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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... all , simply refused to speak further . It was so near the time of starting that I had no time to ask any one else , for it was all very mysterious and not by any means comforting . Just before I was leaving , the old lady came Dracula 3.
... all , simply refused to speak further . It was so near the time of starting that I had no time to ask any one else , for it was all very mysterious and not by any means comforting . Just before I was leaving , the old lady came Dracula 3.
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... speaking , I might not have been able to throw them off so easily . Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods , with here and there steep hills , crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses , the blank gable end ...
... speaking , I might not have been able to throw them off so easily . Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods , with here and there steep hills , crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses , the blank gable end ...
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... speaking to him , one after the other , as though urging him to further speed . He lashed the horses unmercifully with his long whip , and with wild cries of encouragement urged them on to further exertions . Then through the darkness I ...
... speaking to him , one after the other , as though urging him to further speed . He lashed the horses unmercifully with his long whip , and with wild cries of encouragement urged them on to further exertions . Then through the darkness I ...
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... speaking the horses began to neigh and snort and plunge wildly , so that the driver had to hold them up . Then , amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing of themselves , a calèche , with four horses , drove ...
... speaking the horses began to neigh and snort and plunge wildly , so that the driver had to hold them up . Then , amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing of themselves , a calèche , with four horses , drove ...
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... speak or move . The time seemed interminable as we swept on our way , now in almost complete darkness , for the rolling clouds obscured the moon . We kept on ascending , with occasional periods of quick descent , but in the main always ...
... speak or move . The time seemed interminable as we swept on our way , now in almost complete darkness , for the rolling clouds obscured the moon . We kept on ascending , with occasional periods of quick descent , but in the main always ...
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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