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 8
... spoke he smiled , and the lamplight fell on a hard- looking mouth , with very red lips and sharp - looking teeth , as white as ivory . One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger's " Lenore " : " Denn die Todten ...
... spoke he smiled , and the lamplight fell on a hard- looking mouth , with very red lips and sharp - looking teeth , as white as ivory . One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger's " Lenore " : " Denn die Todten ...
Page 9
... spoke to them soothingly , and they quieted down , but shivered and sweated as though after a run- away from sudden fright . Then , far off in the distance , from the moun- tains on each side of us began a louder and a sharper howling ...
... spoke to them soothingly , and they quieted down , but shivered and sweated as though after a run- away from sudden fright . Then , far off in the distance , from the moun- tains on each side of us began a louder and a sharper howling ...
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... spoke as if he had been present at them all . This he afterwards explained by saying that to a boyar the pride of his house and name is his own pride , that their glory is his glory , that their fate is his fate . Whenever he spoke of ...
... spoke as if he had been present at them all . This he afterwards explained by saying that to a boyar the pride of his house and name is his own pride , that their glory is his glory , that their fate is his fate . Whenever he spoke of ...
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... spoke he handed me three sheets of note - paper and three envelopes . They were all of the thinnest foreign post , and looking at them , then at him , and noticing his quiet smile , with the sharp , canine teeth lying over the red ...
... spoke he handed me three sheets of note - paper and three envelopes . They were all of the thinnest foreign post , and looking at them , then at him , and noticing his quiet smile , with the sharp , canine teeth lying over the red ...
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... spoke to me , Mina , very straightfor- wardly . He told me how dear I was to him , though he had known me so little , and what his life would be with me to help and cheer him . He was going to tell me how unhappy he would be if I did ...
... spoke to me , Mina , very straightfor- wardly . He told me how dear I was to him , though he had known me so little , and what his life would be with me to help and cheer him . He was going to tell me how unhappy he would be if I did ...
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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