Bram Stoker

Dracula

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Produktbeschreibung

"Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!" When Count Dracula welcomes Jonathan Harker into his ancient castle, perched amid Transylvania's Carpathian Mountains, the young solicitor is plunged into a nightmare that will test his mettle and his sanity. Dracula--as Harker, his fiancée Mina Murray, Lucy Westenra, her suitors, and Dr. Abraham Van Helsing will soon learn--is a dangerous and powerful vampire who has lived for centuries and possesses abilities no mortal can claim. Bent on creating legions of Un-Dead followers in teeming 1890s London, Dracula must be stopped--but how? Bram Stoker's Dracula--told from multiple perspectives in a series of journal entries, letters, and communiqués, and first published in 1897--established an entire genre of fiction, and with its brooding sense of dread, blood-curdling suspense, and edge-of-your-seat action, formed the template for countless homages, reinterpretations, and adaptations. This unabridged edition includes numerous maps and historical illustrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Top Five Books
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9781938938504
• ISBN-10: 193893850X
• Artikelnr.: 59962039

Autorenporträt

Born November 8th, 1847, in Dublin Ireland, Bram Stoker was raised a Protestant in the Church of Ireland. Bedridden with a mysterious illness until he was 7 years old, he nevertheless lived a healthy and successful life. He became the only student to ever be both the auditor of the College Historical Society and the president of the University Philosophical Society at Trinity College, Dublin.He curated a peerless friend group which consisted of Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Through his friendship with Irving, he was invited to the White House and met both William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. During these trips, he also became acquainted with Walt Whitman.While working as Irving's manager and as director of London's Lyceum Theatre, Stoker began to write his stories, including Dracula, The Lady of the Shroud, and, the last work before his death, The Lair of the White Worm. After suffering from several strokes, he died in London on April 20, 1912.