Summaries of Fifty Shades of Gray, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Dracula

The Picture of Dorian Gray
The story begins in an artists home in the city of London. The artist, named Basil Howard, is talking with his friend Lord Henry about his newly found inspiration otherwise known as Dorian Gray. They discuss how innocent and handsome he is which of course leads to Lord Henry asking to meet and talk with him. Basil, fearing Henry's potential inluence on Dorian, asks him to leave. As if on some certain que Dorian arrives and meets Lord Henry for the first time. From that point on Lord Henry manages to corrupt Dorian and forever change him to only act upon his own pleasures. Following this Basil completes the portrait of Dorian that he had been working on and presents it to him so that he can take it home for himself to look upon his beauty. After seeing this Dorian proclaims that he wishes that if only the painting could bear the burden of age and emotional decay while he himself remaind young forever.
Over time Lord Henry's influence takes affect over Dorian and he begins to take action upon his own intersts and nothing else. One of these examples is an actress named Sybil Vane. He fell madly in love with her mainly just over her talents. So, when she told him that she can no longer act in love because she has found that in Dorian and wants to quit, Dorian dumps her pretty badly. When Dorian gets home he notices that his portrait has changed for the worse. When he tries to make amends with Sybil he finds out that she has commited suicide. Eventually Dorian shakes this off with the help of Lord Henry and becomes more and more corrupt and sinful. Years pass and Dorian continues his sinful actions. Then one day Basil arrives at Dorians house, begging him to ask for forgiveness. Dorian says no and shows Bas...

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...ne of his friends named Van Hensling who realizes that there's a vampire involved.
The gang tries several blood transfusions on Lucy but they don't work and she soon dies, but not really. She has turned into a vampire and the group knows it. So, they set out to where she was hiding and kill her by stabbing her with a stake and cutting her head off. After this Mina and Jonathan marry she takes him back to England where the whole group meets up and swears to kill Dracula. While they go hunting they leave Mina in Dr. Sewards mental hospital where she gets attacked by Dracula. When they find this out they know that they have to kill the Count quickly or Mina ill also turn into a vampire. They chase him all over the place until they end up back in Transylvania where they finally kill him and save Mina.

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