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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... took note of some salient point , and found that this was so . I would have liked to have asked the driver what this all meant , but I really feared to do so , for I thought that , placed as I was , any protest would have had no effect ...
... took note of some salient point , and found that this was so . I would have liked to have asked the driver what this all meant , but I really feared to do so , for I thought that , placed as I was , any protest would have had no effect ...
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... took his seat , and shaking his reins , started off at a great pace . This time , after going to the far side of the Pass , he suddenly turned down a narrow roadway which ran sharply to the right . Soon we were hemmed in with trees ...
... took his seat , and shaking his reins , started off at a great pace . This time , after going to the far side of the Pass , he suddenly turned down a narrow roadway which ran sharply to the right . Soon we were hemmed in with trees ...
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... took off the cover of a dish , and I fell to at once on an excellent roast chicken . This , with some cheese and a salad and a bottle of old Tokay , of which I had two glasses , was my supper . During the time I was eating it the Count ...
... took off the cover of a dish , and I fell to at once on an excellent roast chicken . This , with some cheese and a salad and a bottle of old Tokay , of which I had two glasses , was my supper . During the time I was eating it the Count ...
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... took up the letters on the table and stamped them carefully , and then turning to me , said : - " I trust you will forgive me , but I have much work to do in private this evening . You will , I hope , find all things as you wish . " At ...
... took up the letters on the table and stamped them carefully , and then turning to me , said : - " I trust you will forgive me , but I have much work to do in private this evening . You will , I hope , find all things as you wish . " At ...
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... took their hats off and made obeisance and many signs , which , however , I could not understand any more than I could their spoken language ... I have written the letters . Mina's is in shorthand , and I simply ask Mr. Hawkins to ...
... took their hats off and made obeisance and many signs , which , however , I could not understand any more than I could their spoken language ... I have written the letters . Mina's is in shorthand , and I simply ask Mr. Hawkins to ...
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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