Mina, now uncertain of her fiancé's whereabouts and concerned with his welfare, must also cope with the slow, painful and misunderstood decline in her closest friends health. Worse yet, Harker discovers that his tormentor isn't quite the man he seems to be, but is a vampire: a dark creature of great evil who must feed upon the blood of the living.īack in England, at the costal town of Whitby (the town in which Dracula first set foot on English soil), miss Lucy Westenra, dearest friend to Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray, falls deathly ill, exhibiting signs of severe anemia and dementia. After weeks of enduring this peculiar behaviour and witnessing first-hand many impossible and baffling phenomena, Harker comes to realise he is not a welcomed guest in Dracula's home but His prisoner. Each time this happened though, just before the dawn, the Dracula would halt everything and excuse himself, to attend to other business, leaving Harker alone in the empty castle, sometimes for days. Harker and Dracula would spend entire nights engaged in discussion or engrossed in English literature and periodicals or the maps of it's great cities. Dracula, who wishes to purchase property in England insists that Harker remains with him in Transylvania for a short periode of time, as to educate Dracula in the ways of English society. The novel begins with the English solicitor Jonathan Harker travelling the picturesque south eastern European countryside at the behest of his employer to meet with a client, Dracula, who resides in an old, weathered and ruined castle, tucked deep in the Carpathian Mountains, on the border of Transylvania, Bukovina and Moldavia. It is written in epistolary format, told through diary entries. It is one of the most famous novels of modern times, mostly due to the amount of movie adaptations it has inspired.

Dracula is a Victorian gothic novel by Irish author Bram Stoker first published on May 26, 1897.

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