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Description
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
- Louis de Pointe du Lac ("the vampire"): Young French-born plantation owner in New Orleans, Louisiana. Becomes a vampire after the mysterious death of his brother, because of suicidal thoughts and Lestats greed for money.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Louis and Claudia's creator. Passive, money-hungry, and "boring". Preys on Louis's emotions.
- Claudia: Five year old girl who's mother died of the plague. Louis fed off her and left her for dead; Lestat and Louis's 'daughter'.
- Madeleine: Parisian dollmaker. Unhappy woman who had lost her daughter. Claudia wants her to be her vampire mother.
- Armand: A 400-year-old vampire, who lives with his coven in "Théâtre des Vampires". He will travel across Europe with Louis
- Santiago: One of the vampires in the Paris coven, suspects Claudia and Louis of killing their maker.
- The boy: The human who interview's Louis about his past.
Memorable Quotes
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“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 - Show all quotations from this book (warning: contains spoilers)
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
- Anne Rice (Author)
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