Dracula by Bram Stoker (Book Analysis) E-Book

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Dracula with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

This engaging summary presents an analysis of Dracula by Bram Stoker, which tells the nail-biting story of a blood-thirsty vampire as he hunts for victims, and the desperate attempts of a group of friends to stop him in his tracks. Credited with creating many of the now integral characteristics of a vampire, such as a fear of garlic and lack of reflection, Dracula is a classic novel that continues to entertain audiences today. While Stoker was not well known during his time, his novel has now been adapted various times for the big screen, and Dracula is now a notorious figure in the collective imagination. 

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Bram Stoker

English novelist

Born in Dublin in 1847Died in London in 1912Notable works: The Snake’s Pass (1890), novel Dracula (1897), novelThe Lady of the Shroud (1909), novel

Abraham Stoker, better known as Bram Stoker, was a novelist who was born in Dublin in 1847. A weak child but a brilliant student, this literature and theatre fanatic became a columnist for the Dublin Evening Mail and spent his time in Dublin’s artistic circles. There he met Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde and, above all, the actor Henry Irving. The profound friendship that connected them doubled as a lasting artistic collaboration: Bram Stoker became the manager at the Lyceum Theatre in London which Irving ran. He remained there for 27 years. Despite his intense theatrical activity, Bram Stoker also devoted himself to writing. In 1882, he published a collection of fairy tale novellas, Under the Sunset, then, in 1890, his second novel The Snake’s Pass. Dracula was published in 1897. The interest that this novel generated overtook the rest of the author’s works, essentially horror and mystery novels (The Lady of the Shroud, 1909, or The Lair of the White Worm, 1911). Bram Stoker died in London on 20 April 1912.

Dracula

A literary oddity

Genre: Gothic novel Reference edition: Stoker, B. (1897) Dracula. New York: Plain Label Books.First edition: 1897Themes: vampire, fantasy, fear, superstitions, insanity, science, writing

Published in 1897, Dracula was elected as the “best novel of the century” by Oscar Wilde. For a long time, however, the novel was considered as a literary oddity. Of the 3000 copies of the first printing, only 2700 were sold, while Dickens sold, on average, more than 1.5 million copies of each of his books during the same era. In reality, it is thanks to theatrical and film adaptations, particularly the must-see 1931 film by Tod Browning, that the novel found an international voice, and thus success. Despite increased exploitation of the character of Dracula, Bram Stoker has to date not been cited in any anthologies on English literature.

This novel also has the distinctive feature of having been entirely typed. Bram Stoker thus shares, with Nietzsche, the reputation of being the first typist writer, and this detail is significant here when we understand the importance of typing for the characters in Dracula.

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