DraculaOf the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: "It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror." A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later. |
Contents
| 1 | |
CHAPTER | 15 |
CHAPTER 3 | 29 |
CHAPTER 4 | 43 |
CHAPTER 5 | 58 |
CHAPTER 7 | 81 |
Mina Murrays Journal | 96 |
CHAPTER 9 | 112 |
CHAPTER 16 | 223 |
CHAPTER 18 | 250 |
CHAPTER 19 | 267 |
CHAPTER 20 | 281 |
CHAPTER 21 | 297 |
CHAPTER 22 | 313 |
CHAPTER 23 | 327 |
Dr Sewards Phonograph Diary spoken by Van Helsing | 342 |
CHAPTER 10 | 127 |
Lucy Westenras Diary | 142 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 156 |
CHAPTER 13 | 174 |
CHAPTER 14 | 191 |
CHAPTER 15 | 208 |
CHAPTER 25 | 358 |
CHAPTER 26 | 374 |
CHAPTER 27 | 393 |
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Page ix - ... white teeth champed together till the lips were cut, and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam. But Arthur never faltered. He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake, whilst the blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it.
Page 1 - The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East...
Page ix - The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips. The body shook and quivered and twisted in wild contortions; the sharp white teeth champed together till the lips were cut and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam.