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Dracula
Sign in to saveDracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Revealing his true nature as a vampire, Dracula moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. Harker joins a group led by Abraham Van Helsing who hunt and kill the Count.
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Dracula is a work of fiction written by Bram Stoker. The project began in 1890, and the book was first published in 1897, with a specific publication date of May 26, 1897. It is categorized under English literature, fiction, horror, horror stories, horror tales, monsters, thriller, and vampires. The work has 736 editions.
The text is available at a specific online URL. It has been referenced by 1,481 other encyclopedia articles.
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Book · Open Library
- Author
- Bram Stoker
- First published
- 1897
- Editions
- 736
- Subjects
- English literature, Fiction, Horror, Horror stories, Horror tales, Monsters, Thriller, Vampires
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Key facts
- Book.name
- Dracula
- Book.image
- Dracula 1st ed cover reproduction.jpg
- Book.caption
- First edition cloth cover (1897)
- Book.author
- Bram Stoker
- Book.country
- United Kingdom
- Book.language
- English
- Book.publisher
- Archibald Constable and Company (UK)
- Book.oclc
- 1447002
- Book.wikisource
- Dracula
- Book.pub_date
- May 1897
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Dracula, by Bram Stoker - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
standardebooks.org →Dracula is one of the most famous horror novels, responsible not just for introducing the eponymous Count Dracula, but for laying the foundations for many of the common tropes we see in modern horror fiction. Count Dracula isn’t the first vampire to have graced the pages of Western literature—that honor belongs to Lord Ruthven in “The Vampire ,” a short story by John William Polidori —but Dracula is the vampire on which the modern vampire trope is based. Dracula wasn’t as famous in its day as it is today; readers of the time seemed to enjoy it as nothing more than a good story, and Stoker died nearly penniless. But its long-lasting influence is undeniable, and for all its age Dracula remains a gripping, fast-paced, and enjoyable read. azw3 — Kindle devices and apps. Also download the Kindle cover thumbnail to see the cover in your Kindle’s library. Despite what you’ve been told, Kindle does not natively support epub. You may also be interested in our Kindle FAQ . kepub — Kobo devices and apps. You may also be interested in our Kobo FAQ . Advanced epub — An advanced format that uses the latest technology not yet fully supported by most ereaders. If you’re comfortable with technology and want to contribute directly, check out this ebook’s GitHub repository and our contributors section . You can also donate to Standard Ebooks to help fund continuing improvement of this and other ebooks.
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32 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Background
- Author
- Inspiration
- Textual history
- Composition
- Publication
- Style
- Epistolary structure
- Gothic genre
- Reception
- Context and interpretation
- Sexuality and gender
- Race
- Religion, superstition and science
- Political and economic
- Disease
- Legacy
- Adaptations
- Influence
- Notes and references
- Notes
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- Bibliography
- Books
- Journal and newspaper articles
- Contemporary critical reviews
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Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Revealing his true nature as a vampire, Dracula moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. Harker joins a group led by Abraham Van Helsing who hunt and kill the Count.
The novel was mostly written in the 1890s, and Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes, drawing extensively from folklore and history. Scholars have suggested various figures as the inspiration for Dracula, including the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler and the Countess Elizabeth Báthory, but recent scholarship suggests otherwise. He probably found the name "Dracula" in Whitby's public library while on holiday, selecting it because he thought it meant 'devil' in Romanian.
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