Chapter 1
'3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning...' The famous opening that establishes the documentary realism and Harker's methodical voice.
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From Dracula by Bram Stoker
The novel opens with Jonathan Harker's clinical journal entries documenting his journey east, establishing the epistolary form and the movement from civilized West to mysterious East.
Chapter 1
Harker's observation that 'the impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East' - the foundational East/West dichotomy.
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