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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... thought he could have possessed , actually hurled him almost across the room . " Not for your life ! ” he said ; “ not for your living soul and hers ! ” -from " Dr. Seward's Diary " Contents I. Jonathan Harker's Journal II . Jonathan ...
... thought he could have possessed , actually hurled him almost across the room . " Not for your life ! ” he said ; “ not for your living soul and hers ! ” -from " Dr. Seward's Diary " Contents I. Jonathan Harker's Journal II . Jonathan ...
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... thought it was " An hour less than the time . " Then turn- ing to me he said in German worse than my own : - " There is no carriage here . The Herr is not expected after all . He will now come on to Bukovina , and return to - morrow or ...
... thought it was " An hour less than the time . " Then turn- ing to me he said in German worse than my own : - " There is no carriage here . The Herr is not expected after all . He will now come on to Bukovina , and return to - morrow or ...
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... thought that , placed as I was , any protest would have had no effect in case there had been an intention to delay . By - and - by , however , as I was curious to know how time was passing , I struck a match , and by its flame looked at ...
... thought that , placed as I was , any protest would have had no effect in case there had been an intention to delay . By - and - by , however , as I was curious to know how time was passing , I struck a match , and by its flame looked at ...
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... thought - that there were no servants in the house . When later I saw him through the chink of the hinges of the door laying the table in the dining - room , I was assured of it ; for if he does himself all these menial offices , surely ...
... thought - that there were no servants in the house . When later I saw him through the chink of the hinges of the door laying the table in the dining - room , I was assured of it ; for if he does himself all these menial offices , surely ...
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... thought that the were wolves themselves had come . Here , too , when they came , they found the Huns , whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame , till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those ...
... thought that the were wolves themselves had come . Here , too , when they came , they found the Huns , whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame , till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those ...
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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