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Dracula
Der junge Anwalt Jonathan Harker reist in geschäftlichem Auftrag nach Transsylvanien, zum abgelegenen Schloss des Grafen Dracula. Dort macht er eine erschreckende Sein Gastgeber ist ein Untoter, der sich von menschlichem Blut ernährt. Als der Graf nach London übersiedelt, erliegt die Londoner Gesellschaft seinem dunklen Charme. Dracula nutzt das Vertrauen aus, indem er Nacht für Nacht neue Opfer heimsucht und sie in blutrünstige Geschöpfe wie ihn selbst verwandelt. Ein dramatischer Wettlauf mit der Zeit auf Leben und Tod beginnt. Zusammen mit seinen Verbündeten muss Harker einen Weg finden, Draculas dunkle Macht zu brechen – bevor sich sein Fluch in den Straßen Londons weiter ausbreitet.
Bram Stokers meisterhaft erzählter Schauerroman revolutionierte das Horror-Genre und erschuf die wohl berühmteste Vampirfigur der Literaturgeschichte. In dieser fesselnden Gothic Novel verschmelzen alte Volkssagen mit den Ängsten und Mythen des viktorianischen Zeitalters.
Bram Stokers meisterhaft erzählter Schauerroman revolutionierte das Horror-Genre und erschuf die wohl berühmteste Vampirfigur der Literaturgeschichte. In dieser fesselnden Gothic Novel verschmelzen alte Volkssagen mit den Ängsten und Mythen des viktorianischen Zeitalters.
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About the author
Bram Stoker
2,713 books6,106 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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February 28, 2025
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker is considered a classic and I can see why.
I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed this epistolary novel. The story starts with Jonathan Harker and his unknown visit to Dracula himself. Even though the reader only finds out about Dracula in letters and diary entries, the suspense isn't lost. The beginning was my favorite part of the book and enthralled me with every word.
The rest of the story is still good, but has its lengths here and there. Nevertheless, it's a classic for a reason and even though I'm not the biggest fan of vampire stories, I am very happy I now know the most famous and original one out there.
4 stars
I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed this epistolary novel. The story starts with Jonathan Harker and his unknown visit to Dracula himself. Even though the reader only finds out about Dracula in letters and diary entries, the suspense isn't lost. The beginning was my favorite part of the book and enthralled me with every word.
The rest of the story is still good, but has its lengths here and there. Nevertheless, it's a classic for a reason and even though I'm not the biggest fan of vampire stories, I am very happy I now know the most famous and original one out there.
4 stars
December 23, 2024
A really great book. With a frightening amount of overlap between Lord Volldemord's character and approaches to Dracula, it seems to me that JK Rowling has taken a bit to much of inspiration here. Some would call it stealing.
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