Dracula: Introduction by Joan Acocella

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 4, 2010 - Fiction - 440 pages
Since its publication in 1897, Dracula has enthralled generation after generation of readers with the same spellbinding power with which Count Dracula enthralls his victims. Though Bram Stoker did not invent vampires, and in fact based his character’s life-in-death on extensive research in European folklore, his novel elevated the nocturnal creature to iconic stature, spawning a genre of stories and movies that flourishes to this day. But a century of imitations has done nothing to diminish the power of Stoker’s tale. As his chilling, suave monster stalks his prey from a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania to an insane asylum in England to the bedrooms of his swooning female victims, the drama is infused with a more and more exquisite measure of sensuality and suspense.

Dracula is a classic of Gothic horror, an undying wellspring of modern mythology, and an irresistible entertainment.

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Contents

Jonathan Harkers Journal
18
Jonathan Harkers Journal
31
Jonathan Harkers Journal
44
Letters Lucy and Mina
57
Mina Murrays Journal
66
Cutting from The Dailygraph 8 August
79
Mina Murrays Journal
92
Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra
107
Dr Sewards Diary
212
Dr Sewards Diary
223
Dr Sewards Diary
236
Jonathan Harkers Journal
253
Jonathan Harkers Journal
266
Dr Sewards Diary
280
Jonathan Harkers Journal
295
Dr Sewards Diary
307

Dr Seward to Hon Arthur Holmwood
121
Lucy Westenras Diary
136
Dr Sewards Diary
149
Dr Sewards Diary
167
Mina Harkers Journal
182
Dr Sewards Diary
198
Dr Sewards Phonograph Diary spoken
321
Dr Sewards Diary
335
Dr Sewards Diary
350
Mina Harkers Journal
368
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About the author (2010)

Abraham “Bram” Stoker (1847–1912) was born in Ireland. He was a theater critic in Dublin and then manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, as well as the author of many novels and short stories.

Joan Acocella is a cultural critic for The New Yorker. She is the author of several books, including Mark Morris and Willa Cather and The Politics of Criticism. She lives in New York.

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