B2 · Upper intermediate

Dracula

Name: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker

by Bram Stoker · graded reader

8 chapters
18,775 words
about 145 min
horror

Young lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to a lonely castle in Transylvania to help Count Dracula buy a house in England. Soon he is a prisoner, and the Count is on a ship to London. Told in diaries and letters, this is the story of a small group of friends who must hunt down the most famous vampire of all.

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Jonathan Harker's Journal, 3 May. Bistritz.

I left Munich on the evening of the first of May and travelled east for two days by train. Buda-Pesth seemed a wonderful place, and I felt that I was leaving the West and entering the East. The further we went, the later the trains ran. In the country towns the people wore bright, simple clothes, and the women looked pretty.

I am a young lawyer from London, and my employer, Mr. Hawkins, had sent me on business. A nobleman called Count Dracula wanted to buy a house in England. I was carrying the papers for him to sign, and I was to explain the sale to him. Before I left, I had read everything I could find about his country. His castle lay in the far east of Transylvania, among the Carpathian mountains. It is one of the wildest and least known parts of Europe. I could not find the castle on any map.