Preface/Note before Chapter 1
Stoker's prefatory note claiming the documents are arranged so 'a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact.'
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From Dracula by Bram Stoker
The novel's assembly from journals, letters, telegrams, phonograph cylinders, and newspaper clippings creates multiple unreliable perspectives - a key formal innovation.
Note (Chapter 27)
Harker's final acknowledgment that they possess hardly any 'authentic document' - the famous self-undermining of the novel's evidentiary frame.
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