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Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed historian sleuths out literature's most famous vampire, uncovering the source material -- from folklore and history, to personas including Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman -- behind Bram Stoker's bloody creation.
2) Dracul
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here ... A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents' Dublin home, tended to by his caretaker, a young woman named Ellen...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"This Norton Critical Edition presents fully annotated the text of the 1897 First Edition. A rich selection of background and source materials is provided in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and 'Dracula's Guest,' the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints...