What do you think?
Rate this book
NEW-Dracula
Brand New Deliver In 6-18 Working Days
512 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1898
6 people are currently reading
69 people want to read
About the author
Bram Stoker
2,638 books5,862 followersIrish-born Abraham Stoker, known as Bram, of Britain wrote the gothic horror novel
Dracula
(1897).
The feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely Stoker at 15 Marino crescent, then as now called "the crescent," in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland, bore this third of seven children. The parents, members of church of Ireland, attended the parish church of Saint John the Baptist, located on Seafield road west in Clontarf with their baptized children.
Stoker, an invalid, started school at the age of seven years in 1854, when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."
After his recovery, he, a normal young man, even excelled as a university athlete at Trinity college, Dublin form 1864 to 1870 and graduated with honors in mathematics. He served as auditor of the college historical society and as president of the university philosophical society with his first paper on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society."
In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published 1879) and theatre reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in The Shamrock.
In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world.
The Stokers had one son, Irving Noel, who was born on December 31, 1879.
People cremated the body of Bram Stoker and placed his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders green crematorium. After death of Irving Noel Stoker in 1961, people added his ashes to that urn. Despite the original plan to keep ashes of his parents together, after death, people scattered ashes of Florence Stoker at the gardens of rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker
The feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely Stoker at 15 Marino crescent, then as now called "the crescent," in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland, bore this third of seven children. The parents, members of church of Ireland, attended the parish church of Saint John the Baptist, located on Seafield road west in Clontarf with their baptized children.
Stoker, an invalid, started school at the age of seven years in 1854, when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."
After his recovery, he, a normal young man, even excelled as a university athlete at Trinity college, Dublin form 1864 to 1870 and graduated with honors in mathematics. He served as auditor of the college historical society and as president of the university philosophical society with his first paper on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society."
In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published 1879) and theatre reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in The Shamrock.
In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world.
The Stokers had one son, Irving Noel, who was born on December 31, 1879.
People cremated the body of Bram Stoker and placed his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders green crematorium. After death of Irving Noel Stoker in 1961, people added his ashes to that urn. Despite the original plan to keep ashes of his parents together, after death, people scattered ashes of Florence Stoker at the gardens of rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
August 27, 2021
Another day, another Bram Stoker heroine novel.
In this historical romantic adventure, it's 1710, and the wealthy, pure-hearted eponymous Miss Betty falls in love with the strapping (but penniless) Rafe, who is a relative of Walpole (great-uncle of Horace, I think: The Castle of Otranto) and who saves her life, more or less, in a boating outing gone awry. (See Three Men in a Boat.)
The unscrupulous Walpole and the overly scrupulous Rafe end up with Rafe in a bad way indeed, and the true and faithful Miss Betty feels that his sins are hers, and she must atone and he also must atone, etc. etc. etc.
It's good. Rather short. But definitely you get the idea that Bram loved the Romance/Adventure/History/Science more than the horror. This book has a proper ending, as did The Shoulder of Shasta, unlike the abrupt "monster's dead/movie's over" Corman-style endings of The Jewel of the Seven Stars, The Primose Path and even Dracula.
Next up on the docket is a long one: The Mysteries of the Sea. And me suddenly without devices to read it on.
In this historical romantic adventure, it's 1710, and the wealthy, pure-hearted eponymous Miss Betty falls in love with the strapping (but penniless) Rafe, who is a relative of Walpole (great-uncle of Horace, I think: The Castle of Otranto) and who saves her life, more or less, in a boating outing gone awry. (See Three Men in a Boat.)
The unscrupulous Walpole and the overly scrupulous Rafe end up with Rafe in a bad way indeed, and the true and faithful Miss Betty feels that his sins are hers, and she must atone and he also must atone, etc. etc. etc.
It's good. Rather short. But definitely you get the idea that Bram loved the Romance/Adventure/History/Science more than the horror. This book has a proper ending, as did The Shoulder of Shasta, unlike the abrupt "monster's dead/movie's over" Corman-style endings of The Jewel of the Seven Stars, The Primose Path and even Dracula.
Next up on the docket is a long one: The Mysteries of the Sea. And me suddenly without devices to read it on.
December 16, 2025
Not much to say than it’s a classic for a reason.
Perfect telling of a timeless character.
Perfect telling of a timeless character.
January 6, 2017
It was a story that was interesting with the social mores of the time. I like some of the writing. It was a decent story.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews