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  Table of Contents

  FROM THE PAGES OF DRACULA

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  BRAM STOKER

  THE WORLD OF BRAM STOKER AND DRACULA

  Introduction

  Dedication

  CHAPTER I

  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL - (Kept in shorthand)

  CHAPTER II

  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL—(continued)

  CHAPTER III

  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL—(continued)

  CHAPTER IV

  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL—(continued)

  CHAPTER V

  LETTER FROM MISS MINA MURRAY TO MISS LUCY WESTENRA

  LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY

  LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY - (Kept in phonograph)

  LETTER, QUINCEY P. MORRIS TO HON. ARTHUR HOLMWOOD

  TELEGRAM FROM ARTHUR HOLMWOOD TO QUINCEY P. MORRIS

  CHAPTER VI

  MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL

  CHAPTER VII

  CUTTING FROM THE DAILYGRAPH, 8 AUGUST - (Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal)

  LOG OF THE DEMETER - varna to Whitby Written 18 july, things so strange ...

  MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL

  CHAPTER VIII

  MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL

  LETTER, SAMUEL F. BILLINGTON & SON, SOLICITORS, WHITBY, TO MESSRS. CARTER, ...

  LETTER, MESSRS. CARTER, PATERSON & CO., LONDON, TO MESSRS. BILLINGTON & SON, WHITBY

  MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL

  LETTER, SISTER AGATHA, HOSPITAL OF ST JOSEPH AND STE MARY, BUDA-PESTH, TO MISS ...

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  CHAPTER IX

  LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA

  LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA HARKER

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  LUCY WESTENRA’S DIARY

  LETTER, ARTHUR HOLMWOOD TO DR SEWARD

  TELEGRAM, ARTHUR HOLMWOOD TO DR SEWARD

  LETTER FROM DR SEWARD TO ARTHUR HOLMWOOD

  LETTER, ABRAHAM VAN HELSING, M.D., D.PH., D.LIT., ETC., ETC., TO DR SEWARD

  LETTER, DR SEWARD TO HON. ARTHUR HOLMWOOD

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM

  TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM

  TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM

  CHAPTER X

  LETTER, DR SEWARD TO HON. ARTHUR HOLMWOOD

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY - (continued)

  LUCY WESTENRA’S DIARY

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  CHAPTER XI

  LUCY WESTENRA’S DIARY

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  LUCY WESTENRA’S DIARY

  THE PALL MALL GAZETTE, 18 SEPTEMBER

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  TELEGRAM, VAN HELSING, ANTWERP, TO SEWARD, CARFAX - (Sent to Carfax, Sussex, ...

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  MEMORANDUM LEFT BY LUCY WESTENRA

  CHAPTER XII

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA - (Unopened by her.)

  REPORT FROM PATRICK HENNESSEY, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.K.Q.C.P.I., ETC., ETC., TO ...

  LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA - (Unopened by her.)

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  CHAPTER XIII

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY-(continued)

  MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE, 25 SEPTEMBER

  THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE, 25 SEPTEMBER

  CHAPTER XIV

  MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL

  LETTER, VAN HELSING TO MRS HARKER

  TELEGRAM, MRS HARKER TO VAN HELSING

  MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL

  LETTER (BY HAND), VAN HELSING TO MRS HARKER

  LETTER, MRS HARKER TO VAN HELSING

  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  CHAPTER XV

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY—(continued)

  NOTE LEFT BY VAN HELSING IN HIS PORTMANTEAU, BERKELEY HOTEL, DIRECTED TO JOHN ...

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  CHAPTER XVI

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY—(continued)

  CHAPTER XVII

  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 XVIII

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  CHAPTER XIX

  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL

  CHAPTER XX

  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  LETTER, MITCHELL, SONS AND CANDY TO LORD GODALMING

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  CHAPTER XXI

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  CHAPTER XXII

  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL

  CHAPTER XXIII

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  JONATHAN HARICER’S JOURNAL

  CHAPTER XXIV

  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 XXV

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL

  RUFUS SMITH, LLOYD’S, LONDON, TO LORD GODALMING, CARE OF H.B.M. VICE-CONSUL, ...

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  28 OCTOBER—TELEGRAM, RUFUS SMITH, LONDON, TO LORD GODALMING, CARE OF H.B.M. ...

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  CHAPTER XXVI

  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 XXVII

  MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL

  MEMORANDUM BY ABRAHAM VAN HELSING

  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL

  DR SEWARD’S DIARY

  DR VAN HELSING’S MEMORANDUM

  DRACULA

  MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL

  NOTE

  ENDNOTES

  INSPIRED BY DRACULA

  COMMENTS & QUESTIONS

  FOR FURTHER READING

  FROM THE PAGES OF DRACULA

  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. (Mem., I must ask the Count all about them.) (page 6)

  When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there. (page 31 )

  But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings. (page 39)

  Then she paused, and I could hear the churning so
und of her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips, and could feel the hot breath on my neck. Then the skin of my throat began to tingle as one’s flesh does when the hand that is to tickle it approaches nearer—nearer. I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited—waited with beating heart. (page 44)

  Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great, whirling circles. (page 105)

  No man knows till he experiences it, what it is to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves. (page 141)

  “Faith: ‘that which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.’ ” (page 208)

  “Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this.” (page 209)

  A brave man’s hand can speak for itself; it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music. (page 254)

  All was dark and silent, the black shadows thrown by the moonlight seeming full of a silent mystery of their own. Not a thing seemed to be stirring, but all to be grim and fixed as death or fate; so that a thin streak of white mist, that crept with almost imperceptible slowness across the grass towards the house, seemed to have a sentience and a vitality of its own. (page 275)

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  Dracula was first published in 1897.

  Originally published in mass market paperback format in 2003 by Barnes & Noble

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  Comments & Questions, and For Further Reading.

  This trade paperback edition published in 2004.

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  Note on Bram Stoker, The World of Bram Stoker and Dracula,

  Inspired by Dracula, and Comments & Questions

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  Dracula

  ISBN-13: 978-1-59308-114-0 ISBN-10: 1-59308-114-6

  eISBN : 978-1-411-43164-5

  LC Control Number 2004100746

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  BRAM STOKER

  Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin on November 8, 1847. An essayist, mathematician, civil servant, critic, theater manager, and writer of one of the modern world’s most absorbing tales, Stoker lived during an era of great cultural transformation. Famine and decadence, tradition and revolution, emancipation and nostalgia—these are a few of the opposing forces that abounded in Stoker’s world and that thrust Great Britain and Europe out of the old world and into modernity.

  Son of a conservative, Protestant civil service clerk and the third of seven children, Bram Stoker was a fragile youth who suffered from a life-threatening illness; he could not walk unaided until the age of seven. His early sickness was replaced by vigorous health as he became a young man; he competed in athletics at Trinity College and excelled in mathematics and the sciences. After graduation, it appeared that Bram would follow in his father’s footsteps: He took a civil service post at Dublin Castle, where his father worked. His position made him privy to Dublin’s most exclusive salons ; Oscar Wilde and his parents were intimate friends, and Bram vied with Oscar for the hand of the future Mrs. Florence Balcombe Stoker. During his seven years of civil service, Stoker cultivated his nascent literary career. He published theater reviews, short stories, and a political address; he also began a correspondence with the American poet Walt Whitman that lasted until the poet’s death.

  Although Stoker wrote his first, much-admired book The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879) on his civil-service profession and returned to Trinity to give talks on various topics, he ultimately chose to live a more artistic life in London. An 1876 reading of the poem “The Dream of Eugene Aram” by the actor Henry Irving profoundly affected Stoker; the two men became close friends, and Stoker worked as business manager for Irving’s Lyceum Theatre from 1878 until the actor’s death in 1905. As in his earlier life, during these years Stoker was involved in an impressive range of endeavors.

  He devoted a great amount of energy and time to Irving, fathered his only child, Irving Noel Thornley Stoker, and published frequently. He also lectured on the subject of the United States, studied law, and was given a Bronze Medal by the Royal Society for attempting to save a suicide.

  Stoker put his indelible mark on the centuries-old vampire myth with the publication and stage debut of Dracula in 1897. The novel caused a sensation—reactions were mixed and heated. Nevertheless, Dracula’s popularity has endured for more than a century. Stoker’s mother, Charlotte, perhaps praised Dracula most accurately when she said that no novel, apart from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, is comparable “in originality, or terror.”

  Stoker continued to publish widely, although his other works failed to attain the immortality of Dracula. While on tour with the Lyceum company in 1905, he witnessed the death of his longtime colleague and friend, Henry Irving. The next year Stoker suffered the first of two strokes. With his wife and son at his bedside, Bram Stoker died on April 20, 1912.

  THE WORLD OF BRAM STOKER AND DRACULA

  1847 Abraham Stoker is born on November 8 in Dublin to Charlotte and Abraham Stoker. Nursed by his uncle William through a lengthy childhood illness, Bram is repeatedly bled to improve his condition. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights are published.

  1848 Revolutions take place in Paris, Vienna, Milan, Rome, and Venice.

  1849 Bram’s brother Tom is born. Edgar Allan Poe dies.

  1854 Bram’s brother George is born. Bram walks unaided for the first time. His illness ends and does not return for the rest of his relatively healthy life. Britain and France declare war on Russia. Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade” is published. Oscar Wilde is born.

  1855 Charlotte Brontë dies. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is published.

  1856 Sigmund Freud is born.

  1859 Stoker enters preparatory school, where he will study until 1863. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities are published. Arthur Conan Doyle is born.

  1863 Stoker enters Trinity College in Dublin, where he studies science and mathematics, and plays competitive sports.

  1865 The American Civil War ends. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published. William Butler Yeats is born.

  1867 Stoker attends a performance of Richard Sheridan’s The Rivals, starring Henry Irving, at the Theatre Royal in Dublin.

  1868 After graduating with honors and an M.A. degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Stoker enters the civil service at Dublin Castle.

  1871 Stoker’s first theater review for the Dublin Evening Mail is published anonymously. Bram’s mother, father, and two sisters move to the continent. Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and the first installment of George Eliot’s Middlemarch are published.

  1872 Stoker delivers an address entitled “The Necessity for Political Honesty”; later published, it is Stoker’s first signed work.
r />   1874 Stoker visits Paris. Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd is published.

  1875 Three stories by Stoker appear in the weekly publication The Shamrock.

  1876 Stoker’s father dies in Naples. Stoker meets the actor Henry Irving and is greatly moved by Irving’s reading of the poem “The Dream of Eugene Aram.”

  1877 Stoker resigns from his position as drama critic to write a book for the clerks of the petty sessions.

  1878 Stoker marries Florence Balcombe and becomes business manager of Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre.

  1879 Stoker’s first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, is published.

  1882 Stoker is awarded the Bronze Medal from the Royal Humane Society for endeavoring to prevent a suicide. Virginia Woolf and James Joyce are born. Charles Darwin dies.

  1886 Stoker studies law, and publishes an essay on the United States entitled “A Glimpse of America.”

  1888 Jack the Ripper causes fear to spread through London. T. S. Eliot is born.