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classics. ?We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are
not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.? Earnest and naive
solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the
infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian
Mountains. Through notes and diary entries, Harker keeps track of the horrors
and terrors that beset him at the castle, telling his fiancé Mina of the Count?s
supernatural powers and his own imprisonment. Although Harker eventually manages
to escape and reunite with Mina, his experiences have led to a mental breakdown
of sorts. Meanwhile in England, Mina?s friend Lucy has been bitten and begins to
turn into a vampire. With the help of Professor Van Helsing, a previous suitor
of Lucy?s, Seward, and Lucy?s fiancé Holmwood attempt to thwart Count Dracula
and his attempts on Lucy and consequently Mina?s life. Arguably the most
enduring Gothic novel of the 19th Century, Bram Stoker?s Dracula is as chilling
today in its depiction of the vampire world and its exploration of Victorian
values as it was at its time of publication.