#unlibroendicujitos Dracula – Bram Stoker Brief review: The work itself begins when Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer from London engaged to the young and beautiful governess Wilhemina Murray (Mina), finds himself in the city of Bistritz. He must travel through the Borgo Gorge to the remote castle of Count Dracula, in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, one of the most remote regions of Hungary at that time, to close some sales with him. Becoming the count's guest for a brief period of time, the young Englishman discovers that Dracula's personality is, to say the least, strange: he is not reflected in mirrors, he never eats in their presence and he lives at night. Little by little he discovers that he is a despicable, vile and ruthless being who will end up making him a hostage in the castle itself. There also live three young and beautiful vampires who one night seduce Jonathan and are about to suck his blood to turn him into a vampire, which the Count prevents from stopping. To prevent this, Dracula gives them a child he has kidnapped so they can drink its blood. The baby's mother soon arrives at the castle to claim it, but the Count orders the wolves to devour her. Having the young Jonathan Harker imprisoned in his castle, the Count decides to travel to London, but he must do so in a box with soil from Transylvania, since he must rest in the sacred land of his homeland. To reach his destination, he must travel by carriage to a port near the Bosphorus Strait, and from there continue by boat from Varna to Whitby, on the coast of England, crossing the Strait of the Dardanelles. At the same time, in order to find some rest, young Mina Murray decides to spend a summer season with her close childhood friend Lucy Westenra at the manor house that she owns in Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast. Lucy is a beautiful young woman from a wealthy class who lives in a luxurious mansion with her widowed mother, Mrs. Westenra. Lucy suffers from sleepwalking and Dracula takes advantage of this to suck her blood for the first time in the Whitby cemetery, a bloody event that Mina witnesses; in this episode he picks up Lucy and takes her back to his house. Jonathan Harker remains imprisoned in Dracula's castle, but his captivity ends when he manages to escape by climbing down its walls, falls into the river that borders the castle and is swept away by the current. He is found by some nuns in a nearby abbey, and later stays in a hospital in Budapest, where he recovers from a brain fever suffered as a result of the terrible events experienced in Dracula's home. Jonathan Harker remains imprisoned in Dracula's castle, but his captivity ends when he manages to escape by climbing down its walls, falls into the river that runs alongside the castle and is swept away by the current. He is found by nuns in a nearby abbey, and later stays in a hospital in Budapest, where he recovers from a brain fever suffered as a result of the terrible events experienced in Dracula's home. Lucy's symptoms will worsen after her return to London. When Lucy's health does not improve, her fiancé Lord Arthur Holmwood (Lord Godalming) and his friend Quincey Morris, seek advice from Dr. John Seward (all three had declared their love for Lucy). This doctor is the director of the asylum where the patient Renfield is kept, an inmate subjected to Dracula's influence. This inmate, among other things, practices zoophagy, hunting and eating flies, spiders and birds. As Lucy's health deteriorates, Seward seeks advice from Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, a Dutch physician and expert in mysterious illnesses who taught him during his college years. After numerous treatments and transfusions, Lucy and her mother die (the latter of a heart attack) and are buried. Days later, news reports appear in the town newspaper about a "beautiful lady of blood" who bites small children. Dr. Van Helsing suspects that Lucy has become undead, and he and his companions stand guard outside the family mausoleum where the young girl has been buried.