Dracula
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First editionFirst publication
1897
Literature form
Novel
Genres
Literary, fantasy
Writing language
English
Author's country
England
Length
Approx. 180,000 words
Notable lines
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.
— First line
The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation.
"Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!"
"Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!"
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
"Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great, whirling circles."
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.
"No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves."
But there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's eyes, because they know, or think they know, some things which other men have told them.
"This boy will some day know what a brave and gallant woman his mother is. Already he knows her sweetness and loving care; later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."
— Last lines
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