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Dracula: Sense and Nonsense by [Elizabeth Miller]

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Was Vlad the Impaler the inspiration for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula? No!

Did Stoker write about Transylvania from first-hand experience? No!

Has the model for Count Dracula's castle been found? No!

Must Count Dracula stay out of the sunlight? Absolutely not!

Literary sleuth Elizabeth Miller exposes these and numerous other popular distortions and fabrications that have plagued our understanding of Stoker and his famous novel.

Where is this nonsense coming from? This book will tell you.

There are 16 titles in the Desert Island Dracula Library:
Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow (ISBN 978-1-874287-10-0)
Dracula: Sense & Nonsense (ISBN 978-1-905328-15-4)
Dracula: The Novel and the Legend (3rd Ed) (978-1-874287-44-5)
The Origins of Dracula (978-1-874287-07-0)
Dracula Unearthed (annotated) (ISBN 978-1-905328-14-7)
The Primrose Path (978-1-874287-21-6)
The Shoulder of Shasta (annotated) (978-1-874287-30-8)
The Jewel of Seven Stars (annotated) (978-1-874287-08-7)
The Lady of The Shroud (annotated) (978-1-874287-22-3)
Lady Athlyne (annotated) (978-1-905328-31-4)
Snowbound (annotated) (978-1-874287-29-2)
A Glimpse of America (978-1-874287-35-3)
Mayo’s On the Truths of Popular Superstition (978-1-874287-69-8)
Bram Stoker: A Bibliography (978-1-874287-75-9)
Calmet’s Treatise on Vampires and Revenants (978-1-874287-06-3
Troublesome Corpses: Vampires and Revenants from Antiquity to the Present (978-1-905328-30-7)

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Elizabeth Miller is a Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada. Renowned as the ultimate specialist on Dracula, she chairs conferences on the subject all around the world and contributes weekly articles to a number of prestigious periodicals. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Desert Island eBooks (November 29, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 29, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 564 KB
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Rick Sapp

Authoritative

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2019

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Ms.Miller’s book a must read on the subject of the Stoker/vampire/ Vlad III connection ... or the lack thereof. Excellent in that it does not mince words.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 15, 2019

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Excellent book. Takes to task all the numerous myths and legends that has grown up around the book and sets things as straight as possible. A must have for a Dracula scholar.

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Jim Cee

Everything you want to know about bram stokers dracula

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 24, 2019

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Dispels a lot of myths and controversies around the writing of a classic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 3, 2015

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Proof that Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) did not inspire the novel Dracula. Interesting reading.

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Boz

Dracula is Vlad Indeed.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2017

Sounds like Vlad Tepes talking in the third person about himself. What an ignorant dissection of the Count. He recounts his or rather Tepes deeds against invaders. This book is nonsense and deserves to be dragged into the light where its inanities can dissolve.

"We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship. Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin game them, which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, aye, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the werewolves themselves had come. Here, too, when they came, they found the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the devils in the desert. Fools, fools! What devil or what witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?" He held up his arms. "Is it a wonder that we were a conquering race, that we were proud, that when the Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar, or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers, we drove them back? Is it strange that when Arpad and his legions swept through the Hungarian fatherland he found us here when he reached the frontier, that the Honfoglalas was completed there? And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkeyland. Aye, and more than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for as the Turks say, `water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.' Who more gladly than we throughout the Four Nations received the `bloody sword,' or at its warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King? When was redeemed that great shame of my nation, the shame of Cassova, when the flags of the Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath the Crescent? Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed!

Woe was it that his own unworthy brother, when he had fallen, sold his people to the Turk and brought the shame of slavery on them! Was it not this Dracula, indeed, who inspired that other of his race who in a later age again and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkeyland, who, when he was beaten back, came again, and again, though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered, since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph! They said that he thought only of himself. Bah! What good are peasants without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it? Again, when, after the battle of Mohacs, we threw off the Hungarian yoke, we of the Dracula blood were amongst their leaders, for our spirit would not brook that we were not free. Ah, young sir, the Szekelys, and the Dracula as their heart's blood, their brains, and their swords, can boast a record that mushroom growths like the Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs can never reach. The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace, and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told."

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Amanda Pike

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 2, 2014

This offensive little book was clearly written for those who never actually read Bram Stoker's novel (ironically) and just are caught up in the popular notion that the Dracula if the novel is not meant to be the historic figure having transformed into a vampire after death.

Yes, there were always details in the Dracula novel that did not quite match history but more of the content is accurate to the story of Vlad Dracula than what is contrary to it. Stoker wrote the novel in an era before Google when most of his intended readers had never heard of Vlad The Impaler so he knew he could take some liberties.

Don't get caught up in the hype. This book struggles to dismiss every reference to the Vlad the third history as "added later" just to have a contrary theory. It's not as sickening as the theory that Percy Shelley wrote Frankenstein and that Mary Shelley didn't have the talent or intellect to do it, but it is still an annoying theory, nonetheless because the gullible fall for it.

This book ignores mention of the battle on the Danube (historic fact), and the fact that Van Helsing himself said "This must indeed be the Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turks." There was only one such Dracula who won his name against the Turks.

Just because it's become popular to dismiss that the fiction was using the historic figure of Vlad Dracula as a vampire doesn't make it true. There was only one man in all of history who was a Voivode who won his name against The Turks and sgined his surname as Dracula and that was the man we today know as Vlad the Impaler.

Save yourself some trouble and read the excellent work "In Search of Dracula" instead or watch the documentary of the same name narrated by the legendary Christopher Lee who fancies himself a Dracula Historian and swears by In Search of Dracula as the behind the fiction book to rely upon. Not this.

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Paul Manchester

Drives a stake into the heart of pseudo-scholarship!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 1, 2016

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Elizabeth Miller takes us on a journey through the sea of poor research, outlandish guesswork and just plain twaddle which has been written about this novel, its creation and its author in recent decades. Point by point, she identifies the errors, explains the truth or facts, and furnishes relevant background information and citations. It's really a labour of love from someone who cherishes literature (and particularly this text) but at the same times despairs at the amount of material published about it which is inaccurate. Absolutely fascinating.

Xosé

CUIDADO CON LA DESCRIPCIÓN!!!

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on May 2, 2017

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Atención: En el momento de la compra (26 abr 2017) la descripción dice que este libro tiene 220 páginas, lo que me pareció indicar que podría ser una obra algo ambiciosa y documentada sobre el pintor. ¡Pues no! Sólo tiene 80 páginas, es de formato cuadrado y tamaño modesto (23 x 23 cm.). No era lo que pensaba, ni lo que buscaba. A su favor decir que la impresión es correcta y su diseño bastante atractivo. En cuanto a la política de devoluciones de Amazon, como siempre, ha sido impecable.

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Bárbara

This book is a must have.

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on January 27, 2017

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Are you fed up with Florescu's mistranslations? Then this is the book you need. A lot of terrible books have been writing on Stoker's novel, and Miller points their faults with humor. It's not just illustrative, it's a very amusing read.

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