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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... stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale . I had for dinner , or rather supper , a chicken done up some way with red pepper , which was very good but thirsty . ( Mem . , get recipe for Mina . ) I asked the waiter , and he said it was ...
... stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale . I had for dinner , or rather supper , a chicken done up some way with red pepper , which was very good but thirsty . ( Mem . , get recipe for Mina . ) I asked the waiter , and he said it was ...
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... stopped , the driver jumped down and held out his hand to assist me to alight . Again I could not but notice his prodigious strength . His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine if he had chosen . Then he ...
... stopped , the driver jumped down and held out his hand to assist me to alight . Again I could not but notice his prodigious strength . His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine if he had chosen . Then he ...
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... stopped . " Hark ! " Close at hand came the howling of many wolves . It was almost as if the sound sprang up at the rising of his hand , just as the music of a great orchestra seems to leap under the bâton of the conductor . After a ...
... stopped . " Hark ! " Close at hand came the howling of many wolves . It was almost as if the sound sprang up at the rising of his hand , just as the music of a great orchestra seems to leap under the bâton of the conductor . After a ...
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... stopped and looked at the Count . There was a mocking smile on the bloated face which seemed to drive me mad . This was the being I was helping to transfer to London , where , perhaps , for centuries to come he might , amongst its ...
... stopped and looked at the Count . There was a mocking smile on the bloated face which seemed to drive me mad . This was the being I was helping to transfer to London , where , perhaps , for centuries to come he might , amongst its ...
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... stopped , and said with a sort of manly fervour that I could have loved him for if I had been free : - " Lucy , you are an honest - hearted girl , I know . I should not be here speaking to you as I am now if I did not believe you clean ...
... stopped , and said with a sort of manly fervour that I could have loved him for if I had been free : - " Lucy , you are an honest - hearted girl , I know . I should not be here speaking to you as I am now if I did not believe you clean ...
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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