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The Castle in Transylvania by Jules Verne

By Jules Verne

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Before there has been Dracula, there has been The citadel in Transylvania. In its first new translation in over a hundred years, this can be the 1st booklet to set a gothic horror tale, that includes those that may possibly or will not be lifeless, in Transylvania.
In a distant village bring to an end from the surface global through the darkish mountains of Transylvania, the townspeople have come to suspect that supernatural forces needs to be answerable for the menacing apparitions emanating from the fortress looming over them.
yet a vacationing younger count number name callings at their fears. He vows to free up the villagers via pitting his cause opposed to the forces of superstition – till he sees his lifeless cherished jogging the halls of the castle…. 

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The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river. This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling any one there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted. Poor Bilbo couldn’t bear it any longer. At may never return he began to feel a shriek coming up inside, and very soon it burst out like the whistle of an engine coming out of a tunnel. All the dwarves sprang up, knocking over the table. Gandalf struck a blue light on the end of his magic staff, and in its firework glare the poor little hobbit could be seen kneeling on the hearth-rug, shaking like a jelly that was melting.

Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don’t remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! ” “Gandalf, Gandalf! Good gracious me! Not the wandering wizard that gave Old Took a pair of magic diamond studs that fastened themselves and never came undone till ordered? Not the fellow who used to tell such wonderful tales at parties, about dragons and goblins and giants and the rescue of princesses and the unexpected luck of widows’ sons? Not the man that used to make such particularly excellent fireworks!

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