An English solicitor named Jonathan Harker travels to a remote Transylvanian castle to finalise the sale of a London property to a foreign nobleman. Three weeks in, he realises he is a prisoner, his host has no reflection, and at night he sees the count crawl head-down out of the castle window like a lizard. He escapes. The count travels to England.
Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897 — the same decade Freud was inventing psychoanalysis and Jack the Ripper was haunting London. The novel is told entirely in letters, telegrams, and diary entries by half a dozen different narrators: Jonathan, his fiancée Mina, her dying friend Lucy, the lunatic Renfield, and the Dutch doctor Van Helsing who finally identifies what they are fighting.
Stoker's English is straightforward late-Victorian prose, with the famous epistolary structure giving it momentum: every chapter switches voice, every voice has its own tone, and the plot hurtles forward through their combined panic. Storica's A2+ adaptation preserves the structure across twenty-five chapters and the great set-pieces — the castle, the storm at Whitby, the asylum, the chase east.
Stoker's English is plain late-Victorian. The epistolary form gives short chapters, distinct voices, and constant momentum — exactly what an A2+ reader needs to keep turning pages. Vocabulary is gothic but concrete: castle, blood, stake, garlic, asylum. Once you have the famous nouns, the rest follows.
Late elementary. You can read longer chapters with light support. Past, present, and future tenses are comfortable. Idioms still trip you up.
Yes — every book in the Storica catalog is available in all seven supported languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Dracula was originally written in English, but you choose your reading language when you start.
A2+. Late elementary. You can read longer chapters with light support. Past, present, and future tenses are comfortable. Idioms still trip you up.
About one month at fifteen minutes a day. The adaptation runs to 25 short chapters — short enough to read before bed, long enough to actually move your level.
No. Storica's adaptation is the version you read. We keep the characters, plot beats, and tone of the original — and rewrite the language to fit the level. If you've read the original before, you'll recognise the story; if you haven't, the adaptation is a complete reading of the book.
Pick up where you left off. There are no streaks, no penalties, and no notifications begging you back. Day 12 is still Day 12 a week later.
Dracula is rated A2+, so we'd suggest starting with one of our A0 or A1 books first if you're brand-new to your target language. Check our shelf at /library/ — the readers there are short, gentle, and built specifically for week one.
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