Bram Stoker
1) Dracula
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"Mr. Arthur Fernlee Markam, who took what was known as the Red House above the Mains of Crooken, was a London merchant, and being essentially a cockney, thought it necessary when he went for the summer holidays to Scotland to provide an entire rig-out as a Highland chieftain, as manifested in chromolithographs and on the music-hall stage. He had once seen in the Empire the Great Prince-"The Bounder King"-bring
...8) Drácula
9) The Man
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"Every city has its peculiar institutions created out of its own needs; and one of the most notable institutions of Paris is its rag-picking population. In the early morning-and Parisian life commences at an early hour-may be seen in most streets standing on the pathway opposite every court and alley and between every few houses, as still in some American cities, even in parts of New York, large wooden boxes into which
...12) The Dualitists
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"The first opinion given to me regarding Jacob Settle was a simple descriptive statement. "He's a down-in-the-mouth chap": but I found that it embodied the thoughts and ideas of all his fellow- workmen. There was in the phrase a certain easy tolerance, an absence of positive feeling of any kind, rather than any complete opinion, which marked pretty accurately the man's place in public esteem."
...Young Zaya was very sad and lonely when her mother died, but she eventually found solace in the company of birds, who proved to be her only friends. When Zaya sees the form of the Giant-Plague, she immediately tries to warn her the people in her city about what is coming, but almost everyone disregards her as crazy. The only who doesn't is a kind old man, Knoal, who believes Zaya and joins her cause of trying to warn about the Giant. Zaya's
...16) Dracula
Écrit sous forme d'extraits de journaux personnels et de lettre, ce roman nous conte les aventures de Jonathan Harker, jeune clerc de notaire envoyé dans une contrée lointaine et mystérieuse, la Transylvanie, pour rencontrer un client étranger, le comte Dracula, qui vient d'acquérir une maison à Londres. Arrivé au château, lieu sinistre et inquiétant, Jonathan se rend vite compte qu'il n'a pas à faire à un client ordinaire... et qu'il
...17) Famous Imposters
Famous Impostors is the last of four non-fiction books completed by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. It features numerous historical impostors and hoaxes. (from Wikipedia)