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This e-text is based on a reproduction of the original 1897 edition.
All modern material has been removed.

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(_text_); passages in small caps have been symbolised by forward
slashes (/small caps/). [oe] symbolises the corresponding ligature.
Subscript numerals have been placed between curly braces ({2}).

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Helsing's speech have been retained. A number of obvious errors in
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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.




CHAPTER I.

/Jonathan Harker's Journal./

(_Kept in shorthand._)


_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at
Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was
an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse
which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through
the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had
arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The
impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the
