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Dracula (Signet Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780451523372
ISBN: 0451523377
Label: Signet Classics
Manufacturer: Signet Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: August 21, 1986
Publisher: Signet Classics
Studio: Signet Classics
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Editorial Review:
Dracula is perhaps almost as interesting regarded historically as the product of a specific time as it is engaging to continuing generations of readers in a 'timeless' fashion. In her introduction Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. At the same time she is entirely attuned to the ways in which, however much Dracula is a Victorian text, Dracula is a very twentieth-century character, a representative of modernity and of the future.
A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - silly, not scary.
my oh my, some of the books that pass for classics! i have read compulsively for around 26 years, but this sort of book could make me give up the activity. i so deeply regret the loss of the six evenings that i wasted slogging through the pages of this ridiculous thing. the characters are annoying flat caricatures, and the plot/action is simply silly beyond belief. if this book can be considered a classic, then anything is possible. maybe in a hundred years Brittany Spears will be considered on par ... Read More
Rating:  - An old fashioned tale that doesn't offend
Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was first published in 1897, and as one reads this work, it is overwhelmingly apparent that it was written during a time when morals and virtues were held in a much higher regard than they are today.
The book is comprised primarily of various journal entries from six main characters. Two of these main characters are remarkable women, possessed of lofty talent and high moral character. It is when both of these women encounter Count Dracula himself and fall under ... Read More
Rating:  - There is more than meets the eye
Though it had been made in to multiple movies and changed into other forms of media, Dracula's characters and the evident Victorianism makes it one the greatest horror novels ever written. It does move slowly at times and the ending is anticlimactic but the good outweighs the bad in Bram Stoker's classic novel.
There are many "good-guys" in Dracula but there is never a true apparent protagonist and this does anything but detract from the story. Jonathon Harker does seem like the intended ... Read More
Rating: - Did I miss something?
While not typically driven to review, I was puzzled by the other reviews for this book. There is an overwhelming amount of, not just good but, great reviews for this book and an average rating of 4-1/2 stars. Actually, the only reason I looked at the reviews for this book at all is that I found it to be the most disappointing book I've ever read. Like a few of the other 1 star reviewers, I actually liked the first few chapters. Stoker develops a nice gothic atmosphere until the story moves west. To ... Read More
Rating:  - A mediocre 'classic'
I'm not a huge fan of the horror genre, gothic fiction, or Victorian literature; but, as one of the most famous novels ever written, I thought I would give 'Dracula' a shot. It's reputation as a classic and the inspiration for numerous films sparked my interest; yet Stoker's work is for the most part dull, slow-moving, and (the worst sin of all for a horror novel) not scary.
True, the opening chapters are quite interesting as we follow Jonathan Harker's experience in Transylvannia and are ... Read More
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