DraculaIt is perhaps one of the best known and most influential novels in all of literature: 1897's Dracula didn't merely inspire countless adaptations for stage and film, it invented an entire genre of horror: the vampire story, which continues to evolve today into wildly varied directions, from noir detective pastiches (the vampire as night-owl P.I.) to tween romances (the vampire as dreamy but distant boyfriend). Anyone who wants to know where it all began must read this 1897 work, still startling and still terrifying even today. The story of English solicitor Jonathan Harker and his strange new client, Transylvanian aristocrat Count Dracula, this is the classic work of Victorian gothic horror, the continuing eerie wellspring of many of our cultural fantasies and nightmares. Irish author ABRAHAM STOKER (1847-1912) worked for more than a quarter of a century as manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which drew him into London's literary and artists circles; he was a friend of such luminaries as writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Stoker is also the author of The Lair of the White Worm (1911), among other books. |
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User Review - KR_Patterson - LibraryThingI was hesitant to read this because I was afraid it would forever alter my idea of the immortalized Dracula in ways I didn't want it to (because I love my notions of all the original monsters), and ... Read full review
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User Review - KVHardy - LibraryThingWonderful book, and I enjoyed the food references. There were not nearly enough (in my amateur-foodie opinion) but enjoyed what there was - a real window into another time. I didn't really like the ... Read full review
Contents
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Jonathan Harkers Journal | 34 |
LettersLucy and Mina | 46 |
Mina Murrays Journal | 54 |
Cutting from The Dailygraph 8 August | 65 |
Mina Murrays Journal | 77 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 166 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 178 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 187 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 199 |
Jonathan Harkers Journal | 213 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 236 |
Jonathan Harkers Journal | 248 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 259 |
Letter Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra | 90 |
Letter Dr Seward to Hon Arthur Holmwood | 102 |
Lucy Westenras Diary | 114 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 125 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 140 |
Mina Harkers Journal | 153 |
Dr Sewards Phonograph Diary spoken by Van Helsing | 270 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 283 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 296 |
Mina Harkers Journal | 311 |
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