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Dracula (Penguin Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780141439846
ISBN: 014143984X
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: April 29, 2003
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Studio: Penguin Classics
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Editorial Review:
The vampire novel that started it all, Bram Stoker's Dracula probes deeply into human identity, sanity, and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client. Soon afterward, disturbing incidents unfold in England-an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby, strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck, and a lunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his "Master"-culminating in a battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries.
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Rating:  - No one can surpass Stoker!!!! This is the only Dracula!!
The fact that Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was published in 1897, and it still holds its own in today's Hollywood style, glitz, glam, and sanguinity is utterly amazing. You will find that this is the most original piece of literary work ever published.
In the past, others have tried to copy his eclectic style, but in the end they've always miserably failed. Why is this you may ask?
Well, because most other authors never really explore their characters psyche, which was something Stoker mastered, ... Read More
Rating:  - Accessible and atmospheric, although the narrative style has its weaknesses. A fundamental vampire novel, and highly recommende
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to arrange for an English home purchase for Count Dracula, he becomes a prisoner in Dracula's castle and discovers horrific and unnatural facts about Dracula himself. Not long after, strange events occur in England--a unmanned ship beaches on shore, a madman awaits his master, and a young woman with unexplained puncture wounds on her neck becomes pale and ill. These events bring together a diverse cast of characters who tell the story through their diaries and letters ... Read More
Rating: - "For the dead travel fast"
Surprisingly "Denn die Toten reiten schnell" or "For the dead travel fast" is more than an opening line to this tale of love in the dangerous moon light. After watching several Drac movies and a few Nosferatu's, I pretty much though I had a handle on the genera. Little did I know what a wonderful world of mystery and suspense that Bram Stoker opened up for me.
The story is told mostly third party though the papers, diaries, and phonograph recordings (on wax calendars) of those people involve in ... Read More
Rating: - The Original Classic
After getting into some The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless (Popular Culture and Philosophy), I decided that I had been greatly remiss in not reading Bram Stoker's classic "Dracula".
Surprisingly, this was only one of many novels written by Stoker, though by far the most popular. It has not once been out of print since it was published. Not a bad achievement, really.
The book is written through documents, and covers a large range of changing viewpoints. Those documents ... Read More
Rating:  - Dracula Doesn't Make A Good Bite in my Novel List
Dracula is a suspenseful novel of blood, revenge and true love. Unlike a horror movie, Dracula doesn't need expensive equipment, computer technology and million dollar make-up to bring you into the novel.
We enter Jonathan Harker's journal with little knowledge of the true Dracula, other than the popular image of a man wearing a long collared coat, with an immensely thick accent and two vampire fangs. His journal does not go into detail of Dracula's lust of blood until far into the novel, and the beginning ... Read More
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