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Bram Stoker · about 3 minutes
Transcriber’s Note ##################
This e-text is based on a reproduction of the original 1897 edition. All modern material has been removed.
Italic text in the original version has been placed between underscores (text); passages in small caps have been symbolised by forward slashes (/small caps/). Subscript numerals have been placed between curly braces ({2}).
Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling (to-morrow/tomorrow; aerial/aërial, etc.), as well as incorrectly used phrases in Van Helsing’s speech have been retained. A number of obvious errors in punctuation and inconsistencies in single/double quotation have been tacitly removed.
The following typographical errors, have been corrected:
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page vi.
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“Chapter XXVII”; “320” → “324”
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# p. 63: “Hopwood” → “Holmwood”
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# p. 98: “dreadul” → “dreadful”
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BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
“Under the Sunset.”
“The Snake’s Pass.”
“The Watter’s Mou’.”
“The Shoulder of Shasta.”
DRACULA
BY
BRAM STOKER
Constable · London
First published by Archibald Constable and Company, 1897
TO
MY DEAR FRIEND
HOMMY-BEG
CONTENTS.
Page
/Chapter I./
Jonathan Harker’s Journal 1
/Chapter II./
Jonathan Harker’s Journal 15
/Chapter III./
Jonathan Harker’s Journal 28
/Chapter IV./
Jonathan Harker’s Journal 41
/Chapter V./
Letters--Lucy and Mina 55
/Chapter VI./
Mina Murray’s Journal 64
/Chapter VII./
Cutting from “The Dailygraph,” 8 August 77
/Chapter VIII./
Mina Murray’s Journal 91
/Chapter IX./
Mina Murray’s Journal 106
/Chapter X./
Mina Murray’s Journal 120
/Chapter XI./
Lucy Westenra’s Diary 135
/Chapter XII./
Dr. Seward’s Diary 148
/Chapter XIII./
Dr. Seward’s Diary 166
/Chapter XIV./
Mina Harker’s Journal 182
/Chapter XV./
Dr. Seward’s Diary 198
/Chapter XVI./
Dr. Seward’s Diary 212
/Chapter XVII./
Dr. Seward’s Diary 223
/Chapter XVIII./
Dr. Seward’s Diary 237
/Chapter XIX./
Jonathan Harker’s Journal 254
/Chapter XX./
Jonathan Harker’s Journal 267
/Chapter XXI./
Dr. Seward’s Diary 282
/Chapter XXII./
Jonathan Harker’s Journal 297
/Chapter XXIII./
Dr. Seward’s Diary 310
/Chapter XXIV./
Dr. Seward’s Phonograph Diary, spoken by Van Helsing 324
/Chapter XXV./
Dr. Seward’s Diary 339
/Chapter XXVI./
Dr. Seward’s Diary 354
/Chapter XXVII./
Mina Harker’s Journal 372
How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them.
DRACULA.