Dracula.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.

Contributor:

GIC Course Text Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classics.

Local Subjects:

Classics.

Summary:

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: an unmanned ship is wrecked; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and a lunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries, 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 Stoker's significance and the influences that contributed to his creation of the Dracula myth.

Contents:

Dracula 1

Appendix I Bram Stoker's Correspondence with Walt Whitman (1872-6) 403

Appendix II Charlotte Stoker's Account of 'The Cholera Horror' in a Letter to Bram Stoker (c. 1875) 412

Appendix III Bram Stoker's Article 'The Censorship of Fiction' (1908) 419

Appendix IV Bram Stoker's Interview with Winston Churchill (1908) 431.

ISBN:

9780141439846