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Brooke Allen is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, Twentieth-Century Attitudes, will be published in 2003.

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From Brooke Allen's Introduction to Dracula

Upon its publication in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula was seen as nothing more than a slightly cheesy thriller, if an unusually successful one. Most such "shilling shockers" were forgotten within a year or two. But this one was different: Over the course of the next century Count Dracula, the aristocratic vampire, left his natural habitat between the pages of a book and insinuated himself into the world's consciousness as few other fictional characters haveever done. Now, more than a hundred years after his appearance in print, Dracula has shed the status of "fictional character" altogether and has become an authentic modern myth.

Why has this odd and terrifying figure exerted such a hold on our collective imagination? Why does the image of the vampire both attract and repel, in apparently equal measure? If, as has been argued, Dracula owes its success to its reflection of specific anxieties within the culture, why then has its power continued unabated throughout more than a century of unprecedented social change? Late-Victorian anxieties and concerns were rather different from our own, yet the lure of the vampire and the persistence of his image seem as strong as ever.

Dracula's durability may in part be due to Tod Browning's 1931 film, for when most people think of the character, it is Bela Lugosi's portrayal that springs to mind. But in spite of memorable performances by Lugosi and by Dwight Frye as Renfield, the film is awkward and clunky, even laughable in parts; in terms of shocking, terrible, and gorgeous images, it cannot compare with the novel that inspired it. It is hard to believe that, on its own, it would have created such an indelible impact.

Once Dracula became lodged in the popular imagination, it began to accrue ever-new layers of meaning and topicality. The novel has provided rich material for every fad and fancy of twentieth-century exegesis. It has been deconstructed by critics of the Freudian, feminist, queer theory, and Marxist persuasions, and has had something significant to offer each of these fields. Today, in the age of AIDS, the exchange of blood has taken on a new meaning, and Dracula has taken on a new significance in its turn. For post-Victorian readers, it has been a little too easy to impose a pat "Freudian" reading on the novel, in which the vampire represents deviant, dangerous sexuality, while the vampire-hunters stand for sexual repression in the form of bourgeois marriage and overly spiritualized relationships. This interpretation certainly contains a large element of truth, but the novel's themes are much richer and more complex than such a reading might suggest.

Readers coming to Dracula for the first time should try to peel away the layers of preconception that they can hardly help bringing to the novel. We should try to forget Bela Lugosi; we should try to forget easy (and anachronistic) Freudian cliches; we should put out of our minds all our received twentieth- and twenty-first-century notions of friendship and love, both heterosexual and homosexual. If we let the novel stand on its own, just as it appeared to Bram Stoker's contemporaries in the last years of the Victorian era, what exactly do we find?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1593081146
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Barnes & Noble Classics; Illustrated edition (May 14, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 417 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781593081140
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593081140
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 610L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.19 x 1.12 x 8 inches

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Abraham (Bram) Stoker was an Irish writer, best known for his Gothic classic Dracula, which continues to influence horror writers and fans more than 100 years after it was first published. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, in science, mathematics, oratory, history, and composition, Stoker' s writing was greatly influenced by his father' s interest in theatre and his mother' s gruesome stories about her childhood during the cholera epidemic in 1832. 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. Stoker died in 1912, leaving behind one of the most memorable horror characters ever created.
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RayGun

Scary and Wonderful

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2017

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You know that scene in a horror movie when it gets dark and ominous music begins to play and you know that at any moment the killer is going to suddenly appear and murder everyone in a horrible fashion. That intense build up, and the anxiety of wondering exactly when you’re going to be scared, because you already know it’s coming. That’s this entire book. I had to take breaks at times to read some short stories that were a bit lighter, because the unnerving fear for the characters, as we the reader know what’s happening, could be a bit much at times. However, it’s easy to see why this is a classic, and how it has inspired others to delve into the dark world of vampires. Though, considering I’ve mainly read paranormal romance, it’s a bit disconcerting to see how the original was so completely evil. The vampires in this are soulless, not misunderstood, and kill children and anyone that gets in their way without remorse. More so, it’s incredible all the powers they are given, not just immortality and strength, but real mystical sort of powers, that I wish hadn’t been pushed off to the side in the other stories I’ve read. Beyond all of that though, I don’t believe I have ever come across a story written in this style, and it was this style that really made the tale such an intriguing one. Sure there have been plenty who have done rotating first person, but this is told in pieces of people’s diaries, the letters they’ve written to others, and even newspaper clippings. You’re getting the events after the characters have experience them and have pondered over them, as they try to understand what exactly is going on. Because of this you get to see how it all slowly melds together, and what each character really is thinking, and a much more personal aspect of the story that allows you to really feel for each of them as if these were actual historical letters that someone has stitched together. And I do so hope people were ever like this, this goodness and bravery and the way in which they talk so passionately about everything. It’s really a wonderful book. Though I would advise getting a version that has footnotes to explain certain things. Such as words that are no longer used in this way. As well as some of things that are referenced. I’m sure you could easily enjoy this book without such, but it was rather nice to have.

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Fraudulent book at best

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2019

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Entire book was nothing but a smeared photocopy. Unreadable.

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Maybe shouldn't have been, but I was surprised at how great this was

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2021

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I suppose almost every person on earth is familiar with Dracula as the iconic vampire, and I guess because he's been portrayed so frequently in so many hokey ways over so many years as to become a bad joke most of the time that I went into the book not expecting too much. But, wow, was I wrong. This is just a great book, full of suspense and adventure, gripping from first to last, full of well drawn heroes. Early on I found the unusual way the story is told -- entirely through alternating diary entries and letters of Jonathan and Mina Harker, Dr. Seward, Van Helsing, and Lucy along with a few newspaper clippings -- kind of irritating but it grew on, and by the end I thought it worked very well. To be sure, it is much more action and suspense oriented and less thoughtful and philos phical than Frankenstein, but in its own way Dracula is just as good in my opinion.

As an aside, it's funny to realize 30 years after seeing the movie just how faithful in spirit the Francis Ford Coppola was to the book. The movie invented the whole Dracula/Mina love angle and Mina being Dracula's dead wife reborn, but basically it follows the plot and includes all the key characters of the book more than other Dracula adaptation I'm aware of. And yet the movie, while entertaining, is kind of silly compared to the book, I guess because of some really bad or over-the-top acting in key parts mostly.

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Incorrectly spelled author name and wrong date

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2019

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Unfortunately the author's name (BRAM STOKER) is spelled wrong on the cover and spine. It is correct on the inside. I'm not trying 2 be picking but I'm a collector or bram stoker's dracula. The publish date is supposed to be October 10, 2019 but it is actually December 26, 2019 (I wanted this book 4 the cover and the publish date which is my birthday). I am not 100% happy.

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Rediscovered a classic

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2022

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Yes I know this book has been around for over a century, but it is still worth every minute spent within its pages. This original story transcends every cheesy horror movie it has inspired. The wordy writing style of that era paints each scene and character in vivid detail. From the remote Transylvanian castle to the moors of England, you can see the countryside and feel the wind blow. There is depth to each character as they struggle with love and duty, with courage and morality, with mortality and eternity. Although the characters’ names are well known in pop culture, this exact story is less so. I found it suspenseful and gripping until the very end.

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it’s so boring

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2022

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listen, i was one of those awful “i read above my grade level” kids who always had their nose in a book, and i’ve read A LOT of books, i have, but within the last few years i’ve really struggled with reading because every book i’ve tried is just mind-numbingly dull, now i’m not saying the story is bad by any means, i’m sure it’s amazing, but it’s just huge blocks of text and i could not sit through it, i was registering none of the text and was just rereading the same pages over and over again trying to get the wires in my brain to connect, i’ve tried for months and i only got a quarter of the way in, so if the way i described myself could also describe you, maybe, skip dracula, or get the audiobook

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Barnes Flexibound edition is Beautiful!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2018

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Review of the BARNES FLEXIBOUND EDITION. I wish more people would state which edition they were reviewing, since Amazon group them altogether!
Bought as a gift and this edition is beautiful. I love the vibrant colour and the flexible cover.
My only gripe was a few fine scuffs here and there due to Amazons poor packaging/postal handing. Not much to say...let my photos do the talking!

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Classic gothic horror.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2018

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On a recent trip to Whitby, With my elderly parents, I needed a book to read to while away my time in my hotel room (which had a clear view of the Abbey ruins, the church and Whitby harbour). My location dictated my choice of novel - Dracula. Although I am not a fan of horror, I felt it might be fun to read a book where important locations were visible from my room. I am so glad I did!

I found the book to be enthralling. Bram stoker put seven years of research into the book, drawing ideas from diverse areas to flesh out his characters and locations, for example his knowledge of Transylvanian customs was gleaned from a book in Whitby library, written by a civil servant posted in the embassy!

Stoker narrates the book by use of the diaries and journals of the main characters in a wonderfully learned manner which allows him to leap all over the show, taking the reader on a rollercoaster ride.

No Dracula movie has ever done justice to Stokers gothic masterpiece. Go on, be a devil, read the book.

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Rob Ash

Beautiful Edition of the Original Dracula at Exceptional Value!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2020

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I'm not sure it's worth my reviewing the story in this book, since everyone is so familiar with it. But if you haven't actually read this original version then it is well worth doing so, if you can cope with the beautiful classic writing style.

The main reason I wanted to do this review was to let you know just how nice this book is physically.
The format is a Flexibound Edition by Barnes & Noble. It's basically a faux leather-bound cover. Obviously not real leather, it is a soft feel plastic or rubber which is marginally flexible in the hand.
The first and last pages are backed in the old-world style using frantically patterned end papers.
The page edges are colour sprayed to complement the cover.
There is also a page marking ribbon.
Even the relatively thick paper stock has slightly off white colouring and lends itself to the feel of an old original collectable.

In short, for the incredibly low retail price of this book you get an absolutely stunning edition, which looks fantastic on the shelf in a collected set and feels great in the hand as you read. Barnes and Noble do a nice collection in this format. Just search for (Barnes Noble Flexibound editions) on Amazon.

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Comrade X

Penguin Classics Edition? Not Original.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2020

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I bought this because it is described as a Penguin Classics edition and is as described but the text of the story is not original: it has been amended. It is a pity Maurice Hindle [Editor] and Christopher Frayling [Professor of Cultural History] didn't mention that fact. Maybe they didn't know or maybe they feel that the reader doesn't need to know that the text is different from Mr Stoker's original.
Q:How is it different?
A:Like so many books nowadays the punctuation has been changed to suit publishers' custom and practice. At school, I was taught that the spoken word appears on the page enclosed in double commas [speech marks]. No doubt you were too. Quoted speech appears between single commas. Sadly, the British publishers have corrupted our written language by transposing the use of those punctuation marks. It seems unlikely, but true, that publishers in the USA have retained the correct use of punctuation marks.

So, now that we know two highly qualified experts in English literature collaborated to adulterate a classic piece of work, what other amendments have they made to the text?
I can't yet tell you but if I ever find an original copy, or as close to one as possible, I will let you know.

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SusannahB

Count Dracula

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2020

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Bram Stoker's iconic novel 'Dracula' begins with a young man, Jonathan Harker, arriving in Transylvania where he has an appointment to keep with a certain Count Dracula. The count is looking for a London home and Jonathan, who has the details of a large house that might suit Dracula, is keen to make the count's acquaintance and visit him in his castle. However, the Transylvanian locals, who are terrified of the count, try to warn Jonathan about the wiseness of his visit, and when Jonathan arrives at Count Dracula's castle and finds himself practically a prisoner of his strange host, he begins to wish that he had listened to them. Meanwhile back in England, Jonathan's fiancee, Mina Harker, is staying in Whitby with her friend Lucy Westenra, when a series of unusual and discomfiting events occur which include an unmanned ship with the dead captain lashed to the wheel being wrecked during a violent storm; Lucy being found sleepwalking in a churchyard where she comes into contact with a tall, dark, mysterious figure; and the appearance of some strange puncture marks on Lucy's neck that will not heal. And in a lunatic asylum run by Lucy's doctor friend, an inmate tells of the imminent arrival of his 'Master'...

Dramatic, claustrophobic, full of gothic tropes and touching on themes such as: love, religion, feudal aristocracy, promiscuity, female sexuality, the pitting of primitive forces against modern and so forth, this novel - which is told entirely in the form of letters and journals - pulls the reader in from the very first pages and keeps us involved from beginning to end. It is true that this is not my preferred genre of literature and I did find aspects of the book to be overly dramatic and so on, but I have to admit to being gripped by parts of this story and having had this novel on my 'to read list' for years and years, I'm really glad that I've finally got around to reading it.

4 Stars.

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