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Conclusion.
This is the climactic episode of *Vikram and the Vampire* (Baital Pachisi), a classical Indian frame-narrative cycle rendered in…
Dracula Index
| | Dracula by Bram Stoker [1897] | This novel, in the form of fictional journals and letters, was not the first or even the best 19th…
Dracula: Chapter 1
Jonathan Harker's Journal 3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have…
Dracula: Chapter 10
Dracula: Chapter 11
Dracula: Chapter 12
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 18 September.--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone.
Dracula: Chapter 13
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--cont. The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together.
Dracula: Chapter 14
MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL 23 September.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps…
Dracula: Chapter 15
Dracula: Chapter 16
DR SEWARD'S DIARY-cont. It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark…
Dracula: Chapter 17
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY-cont. When we arrived at the Berkely Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him.
Dracula: Chapter 18
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 30 September.--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming and Morris had not only arrived, but had already…
Dracula: Chapter 19
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL 1 October, 5 A.M.--I went with the party to the search with an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so…
Dracula: Chapter 2
Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued 5 May.--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the…
Dracula: Chapter 20
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL 1 October, evening.--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a…
Dracula: Chapter 21
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 3 October.--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember, since last I made an entry. Not…
Dracula: Chapter 22
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL 3 October.--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It is now six o'clock, and we are to meet in…
Dracula: Chapter 23
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 3 October.--The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The…
Dracula: Chapter 24
This is an excerpt from Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel *Dracula*, presented in the epistolary form that structures the entire book…
Dracula: Chapter 25
This is an excerpt from Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel *Dracula*, drawn from the novel's signature epistolary format: diary entries…
Dracula: Chapter 26
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 29 October.--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last night we all assembled a little before the time of…
Dracula: Chapter 27
This is an excerpt from Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel *Dracula*, presented in the epistolary form the novel uses throughout —…
Dracula: Chapter 3
Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me. I rushed up and down the…
Dracula: Chapter 4
Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to…
Dracula: Chapter 5
LETTER FROM MISS MINA MURRAY TO MISS LUCY WESTENRA 9 May. My dearest Lucy, Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply…
Dracula: Chapter 6
MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL 24 July. Whitby.--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at…
Dracula: Chapter 7
Dracula: Chapter 8
MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL Same day, 11 o'clock P.M.--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it…
Dracula: Chapter 9
LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA Buda-Pesth, 24 August. "My dearest Lucy, "I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened…
Footnotes
This is an annotated scholarly apparatus — footnotes or endnotes — accompanying a Victorian-era English translation of the *Baital Pachisi*…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 1
I AM by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 10
I SPENT the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 11
"IT IS with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of being: all the events of that period appear confused and…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 12
"I LAY on my straw, but I could not sleep. I thought of the occurrences of the day. What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 14
"SOME time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 15
"SUCH was the history of my beloved cottagers. It impressed me deeply. I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 16
"CURSED, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 17
THE BEING finished speaking, and fixed his looks upon me in expectation of a reply. But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 18
DAY after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I could not collect the courage to recommence my work. I feared the…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 19
LONDON was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city. Clerval desired the…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 2
WE WERE brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 20
I SAT one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 21
I WAS soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old benevolent man, with calm and mild manners. He looked upon me, however…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 22
THE voyage came to an end. We landed and proceeded to Paris. I soon found that I had overtaxed my strength, and that I must repose before I…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 23
IT WAS eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 24
MY PRESENT situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 3
WHEN I had attained the age of seventeen, my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. I had…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 4
FROM this memorable day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 6
CLERVAL then put the following letter into hands. It was from my own Elizabeth: -- My dearest Cousin, -- You have been ill, very ill, and…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 7
ON MY return, I found the following letter from my father, -- My dear Victor, -- You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix…

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