Dracula

Dracula
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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

Cover

Title Page

Chapter 1: Jonathan Harker’s Journal

(Kept in shorthand)

Chapter 2: Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued

Chapter 5: Letters—Lucy and Mina

Chapter 6: Mina Murray’s Journal

Chapter 7: Cutting From “The Dailygraph,” 8 August

(Pasted in Mina Murray’s journal)

Chapter 8: Mina Murray’s Journal

Mina Murray’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 9: Mina Murray’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Lucy Westenra’s Diary

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 10: Mina Murray’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued

Lucy Westenra’s Diary

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 11: Lucy Westenra’s Diary

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Lucy Westenra’s Diary

The Escaped Wolf Perilous Adventure of Our Interviewer

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 12: Dr. Seward’s Diary

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 13: Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued

Mina Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

A Hampstead Mystery

The Hampstead Horror Another Child Injured

Chapter 14: Mina Harker’s Journal

Mina Harker’s Journal

Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 15: Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 16: Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued

Chapter 17: Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued

Mina Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Mina Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Mina Harker’s Journal

Chapter 18: Dr. Seward’s Diary

Mina Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 19: Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Mina Harker’s Journal

Chapter 20: Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 21: Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 22: Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Chapter 23: Dr. Seward’s Diary

Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Chapter 24: Dr. Seward’s Phonograph Diary, Spoken by Van Helsing

Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Mina Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Chapter 25: Dr. Seward’s Diary

Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Chapter 26: Dr. Seward’s Diary

Mina Harker’s Journal

Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Mina Harker’s Journal

Mina Harker’s Memorandum (Entered in her journal)

Mina Harker’s Journal—continued

Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Mina Harker’s Journal

Chapter 27: Mina Harker’s Journal

Jonathan Harker’s Journal

Dr. Seward’s Diary

Dr. Van Helsing’s Memorandum

Dracula

Mina Harker’s Journal

Note

Classic Literature: Words and Phrases Adapted from the Collins English Dictionary

About the Author

History of Collins

Copyright

About the Publisher

3 MAY. Bistriz.—Left 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 “paprika hendl,” 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 don’t 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. (



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