Dracula là tên một nhân vật có thật, một nhân vật gợi lại những kỷ niệm đau đớn và tàn bạo của lịch sử Rumani. Theo lời của Hary Ludlam, người viết tiểu sử của tác giả Bram Stoker, Dracula là một lãnh chúa khét tiếng hung bạo ở xứ Valachie hồi thế kỷ thứ XV. Sự dã man phi nhân tính của kẻ bạo chúa này đối với người Thổ được những người cùng thời ghi lại trong hai bản thảo viết tay, trong đó có một bản mô tả hắn như một bóng ma cà rồng với những. | DRACULA by Bram Stoker 1897 edition Prepared and Published by Ebd CHAPTER 1 Jonathan Harker s Journal 3 May. Munich at 8 35 . on 1st May arriving at Vienna early next morning should have arrived at 6 46 but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube which is here of noble width and depth took us among the traditions of Turkish rule. We left in pretty good time and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner or rather supper a chicken done up some way with red pepper which was very good but thirsty. Mem. get recipe for Mina. I asked the waiter and he said it was called paprika hendl and that as it was a national dish I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians. I found my smattering of German very useful here indeed I don t know how I should be able to get on without it. Having had some time at my disposal when in London I had visited the British Museum and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a nobleman of that country. I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country just on the borders of three states Transylvania Moldavia and Bukovina in the midst of the Carpathian mountains one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordance Survey Maps but I found that
