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Bram Stoker

Dracula

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Language
English
First published
1897
Reading time
697 minutes
Chapters
28 chapters

About this book

Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, travels to a castle in the Carpathian mountains to help a nobleman, Count Dracula, buy a house in London.

The villagers on the way cross themselves when they hear where he is going, and his courteous host soon begins to seem less like a client than a jailer. Bram Stoker tells the whole story through diaries, letters, telegrams and newspaper cuttings, so the reader pieces the horror together alongside the characters. Published in 1897, it shaped the vampire as we still imagine him. Read it on a dark evening for its slow-building dread.

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…

Prefatory Note

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  • Source

    Project Gutenberg (eBook #345)

    Text version

    Project Gutenberg eBook #345 (updated 24 September 2025), downloaded 7 November 2026, from a Grosset & Dunlap (New York) edition. The title page, the publisher's imprint, the dedication, the contents list and the publisher's advertisements at the end were not imported. The author's short unheaded note before Chapter I ("How these papers have been placed in sequence...") is kept under a heading we added, "Prefatory Note"; the 27 chapters, with Jonathan Harker's closing note, are unchanged.

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    Public domain

    Copyright status last verified: 9 November 2026

  • Category

    Classic Novels

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Chapters

28 chapters
  1. Prefatory Note1 min
  2. Chapter I25 min
  3. Chapter II24 min
  4. Chapter III25 min
  5. Chapter IV26 min
  6. Chapter V16 min
  7. Chapter VI25 min
  8. Chapter VII25 min
  9. Chapter VIII28 min
  10. Chapter IX26 min
  11. Chapter X26 min
  12. Chapter XI23 min
  13. Chapter XII32 min
  14. Chapter XIII29 min
  15. Chapter XIV28 min
  16. Chapter XV26 min
  17. Chapter XVI20 min
  18. Chapter XVII25 min
  19. Chapter XVIII31 min
  20. Chapter XIX25 min
  21. Chapter XX26 min
  22. Chapter XXI27 min
  23. Chapter XXII24 min
  24. Chapter XXIII25 min
  25. Chapter XXIV28 min
  26. Chapter XXV28 min
  27. Chapter XXVI31 min
  28. Chapter XXVII35 min

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