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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... things in the world will have full sway ? Do you know where you are you are going , and what you are going to ? " She was in such evident distress that I tried to comfort her , but without effect . Finally she went down on her knees and ...
... things in the world will have full sway ? Do you know where you are you are going , and what you are going to ? " She was in such evident distress that I tried to comfort her , but without effect . Finally she went down on her knees and ...
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... things new to me : for instance , hay - ricks in the trees , and here and there very beautiful masses of weeping birch , their white stems shining like silver through the delicate green of the leaves . Now and again we passed a leiter ...
... things new to me : for instance , hay - ricks in the trees , and here and there very beautiful masses of weeping birch , their white stems shining like silver through the delicate green of the leaves . Now and again we passed a leiter ...
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... .. I am all in a sea of wonders . I doubt ; I fear ; I think strange things , which I dare not confess to my own soul . God keep me , if only for the sake of those dear to me ! I 7 May . — It is again early morning Dracula 15.
... .. I am all in a sea of wonders . I doubt ; I fear ; I think strange things , which I dare not confess to my own soul . God keep me , if only for the sake of those dear to me ! I 7 May . — It is again early morning Dracula 15.
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... things . Nay , from what you have told me of your experiences already , you know something of what strange things there may be . " This led to much conversation ; and as it was evident that he wanted to talk , if only for talking's sake ...
... things . Nay , from what you have told me of your experiences already , you know something of what strange things there may be . " This led to much conversation ; and as it was evident that he wanted to talk , if only for talking's sake ...
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... things of the preceding night , as , for instance , why the coachman went to the places where he had seen the blue flames . He then explained to me that it was commonly believed that on a certain night of the year - last night , in fact ...
... things of the preceding night , as , for instance , why the coachman went to the places where he had seen the blue flames . He then explained to me that it was commonly believed that on a certain night of the year - last night , in fact ...
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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