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Dracula: 1897 First Edition by Bram Stoker
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Dracula is an epistolary novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, published in 1897 after seven years of extensive study of Balkan culture. The modernity of the late 19th century can be seen not only in the content but also in the narrative structure, which exploits not only in the epistolary form the classic letters, but also telegrams and newspaper articles. Dracula is one of the last examples of the Gothic the dark atmospheres created by Stoker frame events in which terror and menace beset the characters, in a crescendo of emotions that leads to the discovery of the horror represented by the figure of the vampire, Count Dracula. The character of Dracula is loosely based on the figure of Vlad Dracul, a Transylvanian nobleman who lived in the 1400s and was called "the Impaler" because of the way he punished prisoners of war fought against the Turks. It all begins on May 3, 1890 with English lawyer Jonathan Harker's business trip to Transylvania at the castle of the elderly and mysterious Count Dracula. The initial meeting with the Transylvanian nobleman does not arouse any suspicions in the young Englishman, who sees only a kindly, elderly nobleman with a desire to move to England. As the days pass, some details become terrifying, until the discovery of the Count's terrible he is actually a terrible monster who feeds on the blood of the living. Count Dracula is a Vampire.
Dracula is an epistolary novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, published in 1897 after seven years of extensive study of Balkan culture. The modernity of the late 19th century can be seen not only in the content but also in the narrative structure, which exploits not only in the epistolary form the classic letters, but also telegrams and newspaper articles. Dracula is one of the last examples of the Gothic the dark atmospheres created by Stoker frame events in which terror and menace beset the characters, in a crescendo of emotions that leads to the discovery of the horror represented by the figure of the vampire, Count Dracula. The character of Dracula is loosely based on the figure of Vlad Dracul, a Transylvanian nobleman who lived in the 1400s and was called "the Impaler" because of the way he punished prisoners of war fought against the Turks. It all begins on May 3, 1890 with English lawyer Jonathan Harker's business trip to Transylvania at the castle of the elderly and mysterious Count Dracula. The initial meeting with the Transylvanian nobleman does not arouse any suspicions in the young Englishman, who sees only a kindly, elderly nobleman with a desire to move to England. As the days pass, some details become terrifying, until the discovery of the Count's terrible he is actually a terrible monster who feeds on the blood of the living. Count Dracula is a Vampire.
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About the author
Bram Stoker
2,915 books6,264 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
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