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 14
... wish . When you are ready , come into the other room , where you will find your supper prepared . " The light and warmth and the Count's courteous welcome seemed to have dissipated all my doubts and fears . Having then reached my normal ...
... wish . When you are ready , come into the other room , where you will find your supper prepared . " The light and warmth and the Count's courteous welcome seemed to have dissipated all my doubts and fears . Having then reached my normal ...
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... wish in the castle , except where the doors are locked , where of course you will not wish to go . There is rea- son that all things are as they are , and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge , you would perhaps better ...
... wish in the castle , except where the doors are locked , where of course you will not wish to go . There is rea- son that all things are as they are , and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge , you would perhaps better ...
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... wishes in every way . I was not sleepy , as the long sleep yesterday had fortified me ; but I could not help experiencing that chill which comes over one at the coming of the dawn , which is like , in its way , the turn of the tide ...
... wishes in every way . I was not sleepy , as the long sleep yesterday had fortified me ; but I could not help experiencing that chill which comes over one at the coming of the dawn , which is like , in its way , the turn of the tide ...
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... wish I were safe out of it , or that I had never come . It may be that this strange night - existence is telling on me ; but would that that were all ! If there were any one to talk to I could bear it , but there is no one . I have only ...
... wish I were safe out of it , or that I had never come . It may be that this strange night - existence is telling on me ; but would that that were all ! If there were any one to talk to I could bear it , but there is no one . I have only ...
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... wish I could put down all he said exactly as he said it , for to me it was most fascinating . It seemed to have in it a whole history of the country . He grew excited as he spoke , and walked about the room pulling his great white ...
... wish I could put down all he said exactly as he said it , for to me it was most fascinating . It seemed to have in it a whole history of the country . He grew excited as he spoke , and walked about the room pulling his great white ...
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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