Dracula (Penguin Classics)
Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship runs aground on the shores of Whitby, its crew vanished; beautiful Lucy Westenra slowly succumbs to a mysterious, wasting illness, her blood drained away; and the lunatic Renfield raves about the imminent arrival of his 'master'. In the ensuing battle of wills between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries - led by the intrepid vampire hunter Abraham van Helsing - Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing into questions of identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
For this completely updated edition, Maurice Hindle has revised his introduction, list of further reading and notes, and added two appendices: Stoker's essay on censorship and his interview with Winston Churchill, both published in 1908. Christopher Frayling's preface discusses the significance and the influences that contributed to his creation of the Dracula myth.
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Readers say *Dracula* remains a quintessential gothic classic, praised for its influential role in vampire literature and its pioneering epistolary st...
The characters were so easily to be drawn into. When a book makes you feel and trepidacious to turn the page, it's a very good book. The modern adaptations have absolutely and directly perverted the original intent of the author. An outstanding book. I can see in my mind's eye Christoph Waltz' character from 'Django Unchanined' playing Dr. Van Helsing. Loved it. Provoked me to purchase the complete works of Bram Stoker.
This is the origin of every Dracula adaptation in the history of humanity, as well as the first mention of the well known vampire slayer Van Helsing (I will not go into the literature prior to Stoker's creation). How can I criticize the one and only Bram Stoker for creating characters that will live on? I did find the novel boring, and it was difficult to keep up with the multiple perspectives of different characters; I did however find that unique in its way of story telling.
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