Dracula: NEW RELEASE: unabridged with beautiful book cover

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Although a published author of the novels Dracula, The Lady of the Shroud, and The Lair of the White Worm, and his work as part of the literary staff of The London Daily Telegraph, Stoker made his living as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London. Shirley being a Cyberpunk author, this is as much a twisted SF novel as a Gothic horror, and if you've read it, you'll realise just how inappropriate the rather fetching, romantic cover really is. It’s so famous, though its imitators and various movie versions, that most of this is common knowledge. Interestingly, both passages involve rude mechanicals speaking in faithfully-transcribed dialect; from his work in theatre, Bram Stoker would have been intimately acquainted with how Shakespeare deploys his own mechanicals. Into Castle Dracula, a forbidding fortress in the depths of Transylvania, where a satanic count haints the night and preys upon the innocent, walks a fearless young solicitor, Jonathan Harker.

No matter how you slice it though, while Dracula may be problematic, it reflects both the time it was written and the time that is now. Overall, Dracula is a stone-cold classic — no matter the genre — and deserves to be read at any time of the year, not just at Halloween.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham van Helsing. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Restless Books has done a good job with its introduction to the book (which offers few spoilers) and the illustrations that grace it (though the characters look a little too modern to my eye). When Jonathan Harker is summoned to the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania for a real estate transaction, he does not know he is entering the lair of the bloodthirsty vampire, Count Dracula.

Other jurisdictions may have other rules, and this image might not be in the public domain outside the United States. First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula established the ground rules for virtually all vampire fiction written in its wake.The modern day incarnation of the old Count is a snappy dresser (army fatigue chic, mirror shades, etc.