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Dracula (Magill Book Reviews)

Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, travels to Transylvania to transact business with Count Dracula, for whom he has purchased an English country home. With business concluded, Harker finds himself Dracula’s prisoner as well as his blood donor. Shortly thereafter, the Count sails for England, leaving Harker behind, a captive in Castle Dracula.

In England, Mina Murray, Harker’s fiancee, visits her friend, Lucy Westenra, who is suddenly stricken with an unexplained illness. One night Mina follows Lucy during one of her sleepwalking episodes. In a churchyard, Mina finds...

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