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The time is now.
We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks - as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the leaving dead ...

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Summary

In San Francisco, a vampire named Louis tells his 200-year-long life story to an interviewer (Daniel Molloy, although only referred to as "the boy" in the novel).

In 1791, Louis was a young indigo plantation owner living south of New Orleans, Louisiana. Distraught with... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Cast of Characters/Important People

  • madeline: She was the most happy child when she turned into a vampire and she just keeped wanting more and more until she got burned>

Memorable Quotes

  • “I wanted those waters to be blue, but they were black. Night-time waters.”
    Louis
  • “"And taking Claudias playful hand I understand for the first time in my life what she feels when she forgive me for being myself, from whom she says she hates and love: she feels almost nothing!"”
    Louis
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First Sentence

"I see ..." said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window.

Table of Contents

Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV

Series

This is book 1 in the The Vampire Chronicles series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Anne Rice (Author)
 

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