Bram Stoker
Dracula
1897 · 440 pages
- Author
- Bram Stoker
- Edition
- Modern Library edition, undated reprint of the 1897 text
- Published
- New York, The Modern Library (Random House), 1897
- Pages
- 440
- File
- DjVu, 11.2 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
Dracula is Bram Stoker’s Gothic novel, first published in London in 1897. It was not the first vampire story, but it fixed the figure of the vampire count in the popular imagination and has never been out of print.
The book is told entirely through documents: diaries, letters, a ship’s log, newspaper cuttings and phonograph recordings. The young solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to arrange Count Dracula’s purchase of a house in England and finds himself a prisoner in the castle. The Count then sails to Whitby, preys on Lucy Westenra and turns to Mina, now Jonathan’s wife, while Professor Van Helsing and Lucy’s friends set out to hunt him down and follow him back to his homeland.
Behind the horror readers have found Victorian fears about sexuality, disease, science and foreign invasion. Count Dracula has become one of the most adapted characters in film and theatre.
Contents
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About this edition
An undated Modern Library reprint published in New York by Random House, with the original 1897 copyright notice and the dedication to “Hommy-Beg” (Stoker’s friend Hall Caine). The year given here is that of the novel’s first publication, as on the Wikisource index; the printing itself is much later. The text is complete, in 27 chapters, with Stoker’s prefatory note, and the scan has a text layer.
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Source
A scan from the Wikimedia Foundation's open projects. The book is in the public domain: free to read, download and share.