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Dracula: Annotated Edition
Sink your teeth into Dracula, a novel that refuses to stay buried, with Renaissance Revival’s annotated edition. From candlelit castles to haunted houses, Bram Stoker’s masterpiece blends horror, adventure, and faith in a relentless narrative that unsettles the reader and lingers long after the final page.
Told through journals, letters, and newspaper clippings, Dracula begins when Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, only to discover too late the ancient evil surrounding him. When the story shifts to England and the much-adored Lucy Westenra becomes weak and pale, the novel becomes truly unputdownable.
Annotated by Erica Abbett, an acclaimed author and former English teacher, this edition was crafted specifically for students. By placing definitions and explanations at the bottom of each page, she illuminates the text without interrupting the story’s momentum or smothering it in academic jargon. The layout is classroom-tested and thoughtfully designed, allowing readers to move confidently through the classics. A book-specific glossary of terms appears at the back for easy reference.
Already gripping and famously hard to put down, Dracula needs no help creating suspense. This edition simply ensures that nothing stands between students and the story.
This special annotated edition includes:
*Over 1,000 expertly crafted notes — At the bottom of each page, you'll find the definitions of challenging words, explanations of historical and literary references, and much more.
*Glossary of terms — A complete glossary of terms ensures that you'll never need to break your concentration to Google an unfamiliar word or phrase.
*Annotations by an author and teacher - Erica Abbett is the author of two young adult novels and a former teacher of both English and history. Her conversational yet informative tone is the perfect companion to the classics.
The Renaissance Revival Annotated Edition of Dracula removes every barrier between students and the story, allowing Stoker’s thrilling novel to shine.
Told through journals, letters, and newspaper clippings, Dracula begins when Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, only to discover too late the ancient evil surrounding him. When the story shifts to England and the much-adored Lucy Westenra becomes weak and pale, the novel becomes truly unputdownable.
Annotated by Erica Abbett, an acclaimed author and former English teacher, this edition was crafted specifically for students. By placing definitions and explanations at the bottom of each page, she illuminates the text without interrupting the story’s momentum or smothering it in academic jargon. The layout is classroom-tested and thoughtfully designed, allowing readers to move confidently through the classics. A book-specific glossary of terms appears at the back for easy reference.
Already gripping and famously hard to put down, Dracula needs no help creating suspense. This edition simply ensures that nothing stands between students and the story.
This special annotated edition includes:
*Over 1,000 expertly crafted notes — At the bottom of each page, you'll find the definitions of challenging words, explanations of historical and literary references, and much more.
*Glossary of terms — A complete glossary of terms ensures that you'll never need to break your concentration to Google an unfamiliar word or phrase.
*Annotations by an author and teacher - Erica Abbett is the author of two young adult novels and a former teacher of both English and history. Her conversational yet informative tone is the perfect companion to the classics.
The Renaissance Revival Annotated Edition of Dracula removes every barrier between students and the story, allowing Stoker’s thrilling novel to shine.
439 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1897
About the author
Bram Stoker
2,714 books6,045 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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