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Dracula
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.
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"Dracula" is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker told through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles, following English solicitor Jonathan Harker's encounter with a Transylvanian nobleman who reveals himself to be a vampire and travels to England to terrorize the seaside town of Whitby. The novel matters as a foundational work of vampire fiction that established many conventions of the genre and remains influential in horror literature and popular culture.
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- 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)
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- 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
- References
- Bibliography
- Books
- Journal and newspaper articles
- Contemporary critical reviews
- Websites
- Further reading
- Studies on ''Dracula''{{'s}} notes
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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.