Dracula 2

by Bram Stoker

The original world classic horror novel "Dracular" translated into Korean (Volume 2.) In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Genres: Audiobook

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1897

About the author

Irish-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

Reviews

[Maryana · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 pq achei o final um tanto corrido e anti climático? mas amei muito a experiência de leitura

[M. Carmen C. González · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me ha encantado. Mira que es dificil que un clásico me enganche, o me de miedo, pero entre las portadas de estas ediciones (sobre todo las de la primera parte) y como se describe... tengo que admitir que me lo pensaba dos veces antes de ponerme a leer por la noche rodeada de muebles que crujen porque les da la gana cuando menos se lo espera una.

Además, me han gustado mucho los personajes. ¿Quién me lo iba a decir? Y la narrativa, con los diarios y como luego usan ese mismo estilo como herramienta para los investigadores. Me ha parecido un recurso muy interesante.

Si me lo ponen en el club de lectura, me lo leeria otra vez sin pensarlo.

Eso si, me ha parecido un final injusto porque, de las veces que han hecho versiones de esta obra, Van Helsing es... totalmente distinto a como me lo imaginaba. Y, claro...


Habría jurado que el que acabaría dando su vida por la causa sería el mismo Van Helsing. Pero cuando ya iba leyendo el final, veía a todas luces que iba a morir quien acaba muriendo. No sé, es el que menos destacaba en el libro. ¡Qué lástima, jolines!


Así que, recomendadísimo. Me hubiera gustado leer la edición con ilustraciones que han puesto a la venta hace poco, pero la que tengo esta bien también. Dividido en dos volumenes, impone un poco menos. En verano se agradece.