Dracula
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.’Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains. Through notes and diary entries, Harker keeps track of the horrors and terrors that beset him at the castle, telling his fiancé Mina of the Count’s supernatural powers and his own imprisonment. Although Harker eventually manages to escape and reunite with Mina, his experiences have led to a mental breakdown of sorts.Meanwhile in England, Mina’s friend Lucy has been bitten and begins to turn into a vampire. With the help of Professor Van Helsing, a previous suitor of Lucy’s, Seward, and Lucy’s fiancé Holmwood attempt to thwart Count Dracula and his attempts on Lucy and consequently Mina’s life.Arguably the most enduring Gothic novel of the 19th Century, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is as chilling today in its depiction of the vampire world and its exploration of Victorian values as it was at its time of publication.
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DRACULA
Bram Stoker
Contents
Chapter 1: Jonathan Harkerâs Journal
(Kept in shorthand)
Chapter 2: Jonathan Harkerâs Journalâcontinued
Chapter 3: Jonathan Harkerâs Journalâcontinued
Chapter 4: Jonathan Harkerâs Journalâcontinued
Chapter 5: LettersâLucy and Mina
Chapter 6: Mina Murrayâs Journal
Chapter 7: Cutting From âThe Dailygraph,â 8 August
(Pasted in Mina Murrayâs journal)
Chapter 8: Mina Murrayâs Journal
Chapter 9: Mina Murrayâs Journal
Chapter 10: Mina Murrayâs Journal
Dr. Sewardâs Diaryâcontinued
Chapter 11: Lucy Westenraâs Diary
The Escaped Wolf Perilous Adventure of Our Interviewer
Chapter 12: Dr. Sewardâs Diary
Chapter 13: Dr. Sewardâs Diaryâcontinued
The Hampstead Horror Another Child Injured
Chapter 14: Mina Harkerâs Journal
Chapter 15: Dr. Sewardâs Diaryâcontinued
Chapter 16: Dr. Sewardâs Diaryâcontinued
Chapter 17: Dr. Sewardâs Diaryâcontinued
Chapter 18: Dr. Sewardâs Diary
Chapter 19: Jonathan Harkerâs Journal
Chapter 20: Jonathan Harkerâs Journal
Chapter 21: Dr. Sewardâs Diary
Chapter 22: Jonathan Harkerâs Journal
Chapter 23: Dr. Sewardâs Diary
Chapter 24: Dr. Sewardâs Phonograph Diary, Spoken by Van Helsing
Chapter 25: Dr. Sewardâs Diary
Chapter 26: Dr. Sewardâs Diary
Mina Harkerâs Memorandum (Entered in her journal)
Mina Harkerâs Journalâcontinued
Chapter 27: Mina Harkerâs Journal
Dr. Van Helsingâs Memorandum
Classic Literature: Words and Phrases Adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
3 MAY. Bistriz.âLeft Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem., get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called âpaprika hendl,â and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians. I found my smattering of German very useful here; indeed, I donât know how I should be able to get on without it.
Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a nobleman of that country. I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.
In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it. I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (
