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Dracula
Bram Stoker
When Count Dracula leaves the Carpathians for London, ancient terror crosses the threshold of the modern world.
Shared themes:#19th century
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1898 · Complete work
Stories of Love
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“A daring, unsentimental dissection of romantic passion, duty, and obsession from Spain’s pioneering nineteenth-century realist.”
Published in 1898, this compelling collection of short stories dissects the anatomy of affection with acute psychological insight and dramatic poise. Turning away from melodramatic clichés, Emilia Pardo Bazán probes the fractures within human desire, examining social expectation, disillusionment, jealousy, and unexpected tenderness across diverse corners of nineteenth-century society. Each narrative offers a rich, atmospheric vignette of the joys and cruelties that define romance and domestic life. This vital anthology captures one of Europe’s most formidable naturalists at the height of her inventive storytelling powers.
25 Episodes · Classic
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Table of Contents
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Episode 01
~12 min
Prefacio · I
“I will not insist, having promised not to weary you, reader, at least wittingly.”
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Episode 02
~11 min
Prefacio · II
“Love, whom she believed she held in her arms, was deeper within, in her very heart; and Eve, in murdering him, had slain herself.”
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Episode 03
~13 min
Prefacio · III
“The others were filled with ribbons, jewels, trinkets, fans, and scented handkerchiefs.”
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Episode 04
~12 min
Prefacio · IV
“María, thoughtful, tore up the note; but next day, when watering the plant, her heart leaped in her breast and her hand trembled.”
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Episode 05
~5 min
Prefacio · V
“In a voice scarcely audible, broken by sobs, she murmured slowly, as if wishing to engrave her words forever in my memory:”
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Episode 06
~14 min
To an Angel · I
“And the abandoned angel, feeling neither pain nor affront, mournfully murmured:”
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Episode 07
~14 min
To an Angel · II
“All my savings, and a good bit more, were about to be swallowed up in that pair of little studs, no larger than a tiny chickpea.”
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Episode 08
~14 min
To an Angel · III
““Marcelo seems to me too much of an idealist—Tresmes remarked in a disdainful tone.””
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Episode 09
~13 min
To an Angel · IV
““I should dearly like to go down there,” thought the young mouse, without daring to say it aloud, out of sheer fear of his mother.”
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Episode 10
~15 min
To an Angel · V
““This I sell for ten escudos,” she exclaimed, “and let it be cut this very moment.””
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Episode 11
~14 min
To an Angel · 6
““He must have been mad—we said, in order to comfort the priest, who had remained deeply dejected upon concluding his tale.””
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Episode 12
~14 min
To an Angel · 7
“Upon the sparse, miserable grass that with difficulty sprang from the clayey soil, lay stretched a young woman of surprising beauty.”
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Episode 13
~14 min
To an Angel · 8
“Hush!—exclaimed the narrator with a smile—; wait, wait, if that were all!”
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Episode 14
~14 min
To an Angel · 9
“Elisa was a most unhappy woman throughout her married life, and died, while still young, worn out by grief.”
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Episode 15
~14 min
To an Angel · 10
“Her ailment was nothing but desire, longing, haste, the need to marry.”
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Episode 16
~12 min
To an Angel · 11
“A brilliant retinue of lords, warriors, bishops, pages, and ladies came solemnly to seek her out and escort her to the capital of her realm.”
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Episode 17
~14 min
To an Angel · 12
“Doña Magdalena’s gaze seemed to me more tenacious, more intense, more sorrowful.”
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Episode 18
~14 min
To an Angel · 13
“Leoncio, lively, dark, slender; Santiago, fair and somewhat stouter...”
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Episode 19
~14 min
To an Angel · 14
“And then the husband, seeing his wife swoon in a mortal syncope, white as the pillow where she rested her waxen brow, asked the physician:”
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Episode 20
~14 min
To an Angel · 15
“I seemed to see the picture, and could not console myself for not having witnessed it with my own eyes.”
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Episode 21
~14 min
To an Angel · 16
“As Mendoza finished the sentence, Martina turned toward her father, who was walking behind, exclaiming:”
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Episode 22
~12 min
To an Angel · 17
“Meanwhile the establishment prospered, and Riopardo, dark, clean-shaven, sleek, was acquiring that composure which accompanies prosperity.”
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Episode 23
~14 min
To an Angel · 18
““And afterwards, without more ado, did you marry?—the friend inquired with malicious humour.””
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Episode 24
~14 min
To an Angel · 19
““Well, the little niece was comfortable with the husband you chose...””
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Episode 25
~5 min
To an Angel · 20
“Everyone will acknowledge that this state has little of the agreeable about it, and that Agustín was not happy, far from it.”
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Public-domain work (1898). Text: Project Gutenberg #55514. The English version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more