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Dracula: read and explore
Told through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles, the story follows solicitor…
About this reading
- Author
- Bram Stoker
- Form
- novel
- Catalog year
- 1897
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Read DraculaPreview the language: Chapter 1
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 …
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Learning goal: Read Dracula by Bram Stoker, then support an interpretation with words from the text.
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