![]() Although this occurred regularly, just before dawn, Dracula would halt all activities and excuse himself to attend to other matters, leaving Harker alone in the empty castle for days at a time. Harker and Dracula would spend entire nights engaged in discussions or engrossed in English literature, periodicals, and maps of its great cities. Dracula, who aimed to purchase property in England, insisted that Harker remain with him in Transylvania for a short period as an educator on the ways of English society. The novel begins with Jonathan Harker, a British solicitor, traveling through picturesque southeastern Europe at his employer's behest to meet with Dracula, a client residing in an old, weathered, and ruined castle deep within the Carpathian Mountains, bordering Transylvania, Bukovina, and Moldavia. Written in epistolary format, it is told through diary entries. It is one of the most famous novels of modern times, largely due to the numerous movie adaptations it has inspired. Dracula is a Victorian Gothic novel written by Irish author Bram Stoker, first published on May 26, 1897.
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