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The Lady of the Shroud
Bram Stoker · 1909
Rupert Sent Leger accepts Roger Melton's conditional inheritance and travels to Vissarion, a remote mountain country whose people must decide how to defend their independence. A mysterious nocturnal visitor, the Lady of the Shroud, draws Rupert into a story of love, political danger, rescue, constitutional change, and a future imagined through flight and federation.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 37 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Characters — Vissarion and the Melton Inheritance
Captain Rooke — Profile
Cristoferos — Profile
Edward Bingham Trent — Profile
Ernest Roger Halbard Melton — Profile
Land of the Blue MountainsOverview atlas of the fictional country, its mountain rim, coast, frontier, and principal places named in the novel. Keep it schematic and source-grounded; do not map it onto modern borders.
The Spear of IvanThe sea-facing headland on which Vissarion Castle stands; show the promontory's stated relation to the mountain spur and coast without inventing coordinates.
The People of Vissarion
This edition
- Title
- The Lady of the Shroud
- Author
- Bram Stoker (1847–1912)
- First published
- 1909
- Illustrated plates
- 55 original artworks · 37 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 10 · about 127,897 words
- Reading time
- 8 h 32 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- October 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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