Dracula

Bram Stoker’s novel, told in letters, diaries and newspaper cuttings, of Count Dracula, a vampire who leaves his castle in Transylvania for England, and of the small band who set out to stop him.

Start reading30 chapters, about 162,000 words

Famous quotes

• For the dead travel fast.

  Chapter IIn context

  • Life & Death

• Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!

  Chapter IIIn context

• “I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.”

  Chapter IIIn context

• Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make.

  In context

  • Halloween

• Despair has its own calms.

  Chapter IVIn context

  • Emotion

• No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

  Jonathan HarkerIn context

  • Hope

• Though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

  Chapter VIIIIn context

  • Emotion

• Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.

  Chapter XIn context

  • Knowledge

• We learn from failure, not from success!

  Chapter XIn context

  • Failure
  • Success

• Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.

  Chapter XIIIIn context

  • Laughter

• Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?

  Chapter XIVIn context

  • Knowledge
  • Science

• The world seems full of good men⁠—even if there are monsters in it.

  Chapter XVIIIn context

  • Good & Evil

• I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

  Chapter XXIn context

  • Comedy

• My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

  Chapter XXIIIIn context

  • Time

• But we are strong, each in our purpose; and we are all more strong together.

  Chapter XXIVIn context

  • Friendship

Contents

1. Dedication
2. Prefatory Note
3. Chapter IJonathan Harker’s Journal
4. Chapter IIJonathan Harker’s Journal
5. Chapter IIIJonathan Harker’s Journal
6. Chapter IVJonathan Harker’s Journal
7. Chapter VLetters—Lucy and Mina
8. Chapter VIMina Murray’s Journal
9. Chapter VIICutting from “The Dailygraph,” 8 August
10. Chapter VIIIMina Murray’s Journal
11. Chapter IXMina Murray’s Journal
12. Chapter XMina Murray’s Journal
13. Chapter XILucy Westenra’s Diary
14. Chapter XIIDr. Seward’s Diary
15. Chapter XIIIDr. Seward’s Diary
16. Chapter XIVMina Harker’s Journal
17. Chapter XVDr. Seward’s Diary
18. Chapter XVIDr. Seward’s Diary
19. Chapter XVIIDr. Seward’s Diary
20. Chapter XVIIIDr. Seward’s Diary
21. Chapter XIXJonathan Harker’s Journal
22. Chapter XXJonathan Harker’s Journal
23. Chapter XXIDr. Seward’s Diary
24. Chapter XXIIJonathan Harker’s Journal
25. Chapter XXIIIDr. Seward’s Diary
26. Chapter XXIVDr. Seward’s Phonograph Diary, spoken by Van Helsing
27. Chapter XXVDr. Seward’s Diary
28. Chapter XXVIDr. Seward’s Diary
29. Chapter XXVIIMina Harker’s Journal
30. Note