Dracula : The Original 19th Century Classic Vampire Fantasy Novel (Annotated) - Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker, Abraham "Bram" Stoker

Independently published

2022

312 páginas

10h 24m

ISBN-13: 9798839290471

Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is a dark supernatural fantasy that captured the imaginations of readers around the world. The story of vampire hunter Van Helsing pitted against the bloodthirsty Count Dracula remains one of the most popular vampire tales of all time.

"Dracula" is made up of diary entries, letters, and telegrams written by the major characters. It all starts with Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer who travels to Transylvania. |....| Jonathan Harker, travels to Transylvania to meet with an important client, the mysterious Count Dracula. Ignoring the dire warnings of local townsfolk, he allows himself to be seduced by the count’s courtly manners and erudite charm. Too late, Harker realizes that he is a prisoner of Castle Dracula. He is guarded by three very voluptuous young women with sharp white teeth and a taste for blood. Soon thereafter, the solicitor’s fiancée, Mina, visits a friend on the English coast. The town is full of speculation over a Russian ship run aground nearby, its crew missing, the dead body of its captain, crucifix in hand, lashed to the wheel. A giant dog was seen leaping from the deck before disappearing into the countryside. The ship’s cargo: fifty boxes of Transylvanian dirt. As the beautiful Mina will soon learn, Count Dracula has arrived! In the moonlight opposite me were three young women . . . I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips.