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 24
... wonder that we were a conquering race ; that we were proud ; that when the Magyar , the Lombard , the Avar , the Bulgar , or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers , we drove them back ? Is it strange that when Arpad and his ...
... wonder that we were a conquering race ; that we were proud ; that when the Magyar , the Lombard , the Avar , the Bulgar , or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers , we drove them back ? Is it strange that when Arpad and his ...
Page 46
... wonder if we -- I mean Jonathan and I - shall ever see them together . There is the ten o'clock bell ringing . Good - bye . " Your loving " MINA . " Tell me all the news when you write . You have not told me anything for a long time . I ...
... wonder if we -- I mean Jonathan and I - shall ever see them together . There is the ten o'clock bell ringing . Good - bye . " Your loving " MINA . " Tell me all the news when you write . You have not told me anything for a long time . I ...
Page 55
... wonder masel ' who'd be bothered tellin ' lies to them - even the newspapers , which is full of fool - talk . " I thought he would be a good person to learn interesting things from , so I asked him if he would mind telling me something ...
... wonder masel ' who'd be bothered tellin ' lies to them - even the newspapers , which is full of fool - talk . " I thought he would be a good person to learn interesting things from , so I asked him if he would mind telling me something ...
Page 57
... wonder , to hap him here ? Murdered off the coast of Andres ! an ' you consated his body lay under ! Why , I could name ye a dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above " -he pointed northwards— “ or where the currents may have ...
... wonder , to hap him here ? Murdered off the coast of Andres ! an ' you consated his body lay under ! Why , I could name ye a dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above " -he pointed northwards— “ or where the currents may have ...
Page 59
... wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me ! I wish he were here . Dr. Seward's Diary . 5 June . - The case of Renfield grows more interesting the more I get to understand the man . He has certain qualities very largely ...
... wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me ! I wish he were here . Dr. Seward's Diary . 5 June . - The case of Renfield grows more interesting the more I get to understand the man . He has certain qualities very largely ...
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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