LATEST DISCOUNTS & SALES: PROMOTIONS

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Dracula

Bram Stoker

$19.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

QTY:

English
Vintage
03 December 2007

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Most people are familiar with the story of Dracula. However film has had a big influence on people’s concept of the story and its well worth taking the time to revisit or experience this classic for the first time. Written in a epistolary format, Stoker takes the reader into the hearts and minds of his characters. From the opening pages when Harker slowly realizes the sheer horror of what the Count represents, to a breath taking conclusion. An unforgettable read, rich in atmosphere and suspense this is one book that you will never forget. Greg

Of the many admiring reviews, Bram Stoker's  Dracula  received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: 'It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror.' A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render  Dracula  resonant and unsettling a century later.

By:  
Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 27mm
Weight:   309g
ISBN:   9780099511229
ISBN 10:   0099511223
Pages:   432
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 11 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin on 8 November 1847. He graduated in Mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin in 1867 and then worked as a civil servant. In 1878 he married Florence Balcombe. He later moved to London and became business manager of his friend Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre. He wrote several sensational novels including novels The Snake's Pass (1890), Dracula (1897), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). Bram Stoker died on 20 April 1912.

Reviews for Dracula

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Most people are familiar with the story of Dracula. However film has had a big influence on people’s concept of the story and its well worth taking the time to revisit or experience this classic for the first time. Written in a epistolary format, Stoker takes the reader into the hearts and minds of his characters. From the opening pages when Harker slowly realizes the sheer horror of what the Count represents, to a breath taking conclusion. An unforgettable read, rich in atmosphere and suspense this is one book that you will never forget. Greg





Those who cannot find their own reflection in Bram Stoker's still-living creation are surely the undead . <br> -- New York Times Review of Books<br> <br> An exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia, Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid and perverse.... The one in Highgate cemetery, where Arthur and Van Helsing drive a stake through the writhing body of the vampirised Lucy Westenra, is my favourite. <br> -- Sarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger<br><br> It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror. <br> -- Bram Stoker's Mother


See Inside

See Also