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1) Dracula
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In a gripping and sensational work of classic Gothic fiction we discover the infamous Count Dracula. When English lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to an obscure town called Transylvania, the goal of his visit was most certainly not to do business with a vampire. As he makes his way through the village square, Harker is overcome with an eerie sensation that the Count is not who he says he is. Strewn with various charms and trinkets thrown at him from...
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"First published in 1886 as a 'shilling shocker, ' 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois respectability, urban violence, and class conflict. The result is a tale that has taken on the force of myth in the popular imagination. This Broadview edition provides a selection of contextual material, including contemporary reviews of the novel, Stevenson's essay 'A Chapter on Dreams, ' and excerpts...
3) Drácula
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"Las de Bram Stoker y Jonathan Haker fueron vidas paralelas. Stoker era el secretario particular de Henry Irving, un reputado actor shakespeariano y propietario del Lyceum Theatre de Londres; Harker, el del enigmático conde Drácula, quien lo convocó a su castillo de Transilvania para negociar la adquisición de una mansión en Londres. No es casual que el personaje de Drácula se inspire en las facciones e idiosincrasia de Irving, ni que stoker...
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"El pueblo de Sleepy Hollow estaba bajo un hechizo adormecedor; la gente que viv̕a ah̕ caminaba sǫolienta y era propensa a tener visiones y suęos extrąos. Por todo el pueblo exist̕an lugares encantados y supersticiones. Entre todas estas fantas̕as, hab̕a un espectro que sobresal̕a de todos los dem̀s. Un soldado que por las noches cabalgaba velozmente, asustando a los lugaręos con s̤lo el galopar de su caballo. Iba de un lugar a otro buscando...