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Dracula

Bram Stoker

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Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania on legal business and finds his host, Count Dracula, increasingly alarming. Meanwhile, unsettling events gather around people in England. Journals, letters, and other records bring their separate experiences together as a group tries to understand a threat that ordinary explanations cannot contain.

28 sections161,053 wordsAbout 12 h 12 min
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About Dracula

The novel builds knowledge by assembling documents from people who initially understand only fragments of events. Travel, medical observation, shorthand, and recorded testimony help the group respond, yet none makes fear disappear. Follow how evidence passes between characters and changes what they are willing to believe. The contrast between modern methods and an ancient menace gives the pursuit its distinctive rhythm of investigation, doubt, and urgent cooperation.

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Trace how separate journals and records become shared evidence, turning isolated fears into a collective investigation of an apparently impossible threat.

This reading edition contains 161,053 words in 28 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: Bram Stoker. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

Opening excerpt

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.

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Contents

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  1. Opening note on the papers1 min
  2. CHAPTER I JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL27 min
  3. CHAPTER II JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL— continued26 min
  4. CHAPTER III JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL— continued26 min
  5. CHAPTER IV JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL— continued27 min
  6. CHAPTER V17 min
  7. CHAPTER VI MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL26 min
  8. CHAPTER VII CUTTING FROM “THE DAILYGRAPH,” 8 AUGUST26 min
  9. CHAPTER VIII MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL29 min
  10. CHAPTER IX28 min
  11. CHAPTER X28 min
  12. CHAPTER XI24 min
  13. CHAPTER XII DR. SEWARD’S DIARY34 min
  14. CHAPTER XIII DR. SEWARD’S DIARY— continued .31 min
  15. CHAPTER XIV MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL30 min
  16. CHAPTER XV DR. SEWARD’S DIARY— continued .27 min
  17. CHAPTER XVI DR. SEWARD’S DIARY— continued21 min
  18. CHAPTER XVII DR. SEWARD’S DIARY— continued26 min
  19. CHAPTER XVIII DR. SEWARD’S DIARY32 min
  20. CHAPTER XIX JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL26 min
  21. CHAPTER XX JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL27 min
  22. CHAPTER XXI DR. SEWARD’S DIARY29 min
  23. CHAPTER XXII JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL25 min
  24. CHAPTER XXIII DR. SEWARD’S DIARY26 min
  25. CHAPTER XXIV DR. SEWARD’S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING29 min
  26. CHAPTER XXV DR. SEWARD’S DIARY29 min
  27. CHAPTER XXVI DR. SEWARD’S DIARY33 min
  28. CHAPTER XXVII MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL37 min

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