Dracula Collected: (Illustrated Edition)

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Dracula was his fifth novel, and it was to have an impact and an enduring appeal its author could never have foreseen. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. To mark Folio’s 75th anniversary, Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is published as a magical new edition, beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Marie-Alice Harel and bursting with exquisite design details. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places.

Count Dracula may have outgrown the book to become the quintessential vampire, but the frontispiece portrait of him shows the aquiline nose, arched nostrils and massive eyebrows envisaged by the author to perfection, it also includes the nails ‘long and fine, and cut to a sharp point’. Neil has published over forty books, has written for national magazines and journals and appears on television documentaries and factual programmes as a guest historian including Who Do You Think You Are? This books recounts the life and loves of Bram Stoker, it revels insight in to his life in a way others haven't due to the access of personal letters and diaries. After working as a theatre critic, he escaped the monotony of a career in the Irish Civil Service by accepting the job of manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which he ran for 27 years.

He is recognised internationally as a leading expert on Bram Stoker and has assembled one of the finest collections of Bram Stoker first editions, letters, and memorabilia in private hands. Handpicked for her ethereal interpretations of the darker fairy tales as the perfect artist to illustrate Dracula , Angela Barrett has created remarkable work which is interwoven through this lavish limited edition. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Sea in 2005, the Franz Kafka Prize in 2011 and the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature in 2013. edition thus in soft cover format with these illustrations, large 8vo, 387pp, line illustrations Jae Lee; card covers; VG Copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Neil's other books published by Pen and Sword Books Ltd include: The King’s Men: The Sandringham Company and Norfolk Regiment Territorial Battalions 1914 – 1918, Beating the Nazi Invader and Britain’s Coast at War.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Bram wrote numerous articles, short stories and poetry for newspapers and magazines, he had a total of eleven novels and two collections of short stories published in his lifetime, but he would only become known for one of them – Dracula. From the carmine leather binding, beautifully blocked with a design by Angela Barrett featuring howling wolves, a forbidding castle, bats, garlic and a crucifix, to the red laid endpapers which perfectly set off the parchment-like limitation label, printed in red, numbered by hand and signed by the artist, every aspect has been carefully considered. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

Housed in a black cloth slipcase, blocked in cream and gold and with curved edges to facilitate removing the book, it is the attention to detail that makes this new limited edition such a fitting tribute to Stoker’s gothic masterpiece. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. He guest lectures for both academic and social audiences across Britain and around the world and frequently appears as guest expert on factual television and radio programmes.Cette édition reprend donc une partie des remarquables dessins d'Edward Gorey : chauve-souris voletant sur la tranche (très réussie) et quelques autres dans le texte. The first adventure in the Folio Society editions of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ series, Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood features Jonathan Burton’s enchanting illustrations and a new introduction by Michael Morpurgo. Then there are the nine different black-and-white tailpieces, some like the bat and the crucifix are repeated and others, such as the terrified horses surrounded by baying wolves that ends the first chapter, are specific to a particular scene. The edition is introduced by Irish novelist John Banville, who reflects on Stoker’s life and the circumstances and influences that led to Dracula becoming not only his most successful novel, but also revered as one of the greatest horror stories ever written. The illustrations accentuate the sense of foreboding and despair in Stoker’s narrative, while the metallic-blocked binding and blood-red marbling on the slipcase complete this sumptuous new edition of the classic 19th-century horror.

Barrett has gone back to the novel and each image is faithful in every detail to Stoker’s descriptions. Exploring themes of sexuality, religion, technology and good versus evil, and told through journal entries, letters and telegrams, its cultural and literary significance is undisputed. She has illustrated a number of picture books and children’s novels and is particularly well known for her work on fairy tales. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Mary Shelley's darkly disturbing tale is illustrated by Angela Barrett and newly introduced by Richard Holmes. The groundbreaking debut novel of Hugo Award-winning author Becky Chambers, one of the most imaginative voices in contemporary science fiction, is a truly galactic limited edition.