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Bram Stoker's Dracula (Optimized for Kindle) |  | Author: Bram Stoker
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 2480
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Publication Date: October 31, 2007
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Product Description
A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imprisoned in a Transylvanian castle by his mysterious host. Back at home his fiancée and friends are menaced by a malevolent force which seems intent on imposing suffering and destruction. Can the devil really have arrived on England’s shores? And what is it that he hungers for so desperately?
Amazon.com Review
Dracula is one of the few horror books to be honored by inclusion in the Norton Critical Edition series. (The others are Frankenstein, The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Metamorphosis.) This 100th-anniversary edition includes not only the complete authoritative text of the novel with illuminating footnotes, but also four contextual essays, five reviews from the time of publication, five articles on dramatic and film variations, and seven selections from literary and academic criticism. Nina Auerbach of the University of Pennsylvania (author of Our Vampires, Ourselves) and horror scholar David J. Skal (author of Hollywood Gothic, The Monster Show, and Screams of Reason) are the editors of the volume. Especially fascinating are excerpts from materials that Bram Stoker consulted in his research for the book, and his working papers over the several years he was composing it. The selection of criticism includes essays on how Dracula deals with female sexuality, gender inversion, homoerotic elements, and Victorian fears of "reverse colonization" by politically turbulent Transylvania.
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 Liked this novel August 27, 2010
Inde Book Lover
I've never been a huge goth/horror fan. I suppose werewolves and undead and all that are okay, as long as the heroes get to smack them good before the story's over. But if it gets too scary, I don't like it. I don't like being seriously scared, I guess. Suspense, that's great, and adventure, but not horror.
Anyway, I really loved this novel. I was a little leery at first, for the reasons mentioned above, and also because of the sometimes association of vampires with sex. I wanted to read it because I wanted to see the source material that many modern vampire stories come from ("Van Helsing", undead in D&D, "Vampire Hunter D", vampires in other video games and movies, etc).
 awesome book by bram stoker July 22, 2010
Darth Bane (bonita springs,florida,USA)
awesome book from the very begining to the very end if you like this book and enjoy it check out these other novels iv read and enjoyed as well
Dracula The Un-Dead
'Salem's Lot
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
Still holds up! June 28, 2010
Joel Arnold (Savage, MN United States)
Bram Stoker's Dracula still holds up after all these years. Sure, there are all the other vampire novels out there, but why not read one of the original and one of the best? I'd originally read this in high school, but re-read it recently (yikes - 22 years later!) and I was impressed how well it was written, and how well the epistolary form works here. Stoker used journal entries and letters to create this story, and this works not only to move the story forward, but also is an interesting way to paint the different characters as they talk of their interactions with Dracula. Anyone who is a horror fan really ought to read this. Heck, anyone who wants to study the craft of writing ought to read this, too!
Joel Arnold
author of Fetal Bait Apocalypse; 3 Collections in 1
 Boring, Wordy, Repetitive February 23, 2010
Molly (NC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not a thriller fan and don't think I've ever watched the dracula movie all the way through so it's not surprising that I don't like this book. I'm just 80% through with this book and every page is an effort. I try to read one chapter every day (about 10 pages), but it's very easy to put down before I get to the end of the chapter. It is wordy, repetitive, boring. I hate the half-page sentences and page-long paragraphs. On the plus side, it does have a story that follows logically and doesn't have daisies blooming in January. My perception is that the theme is good vs. evil although I'm aware that there are other views. The book is sprinkled liberally throughout with bits of wisdom, and it contains numerous Biblical references. The good guys are bound by a sense of duty. Count Dracula is evil personified. I think editing it and cutting half of it out would improve it a great deal. However, it is a classic and has lasted more than a century so who am I to judge.
BORING BOOK February 3, 2010
Barb - Arizona (Lake Havasu City)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Didn't enjoy reading this book. I don't understand all the fuss made of it over the years.
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