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Dracula (Signet Classics (Paperback)) (original 1897; edition 1997)

by Bram Stoker

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Having deduced the double identity of Count Dracula, a wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
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Title:Dracula (Signet Classics (Paperback))
Authors:Bram Stoker
Info:Signet Classics (1997), Edition: 100th Anv, Mass Market Paperback
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Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

  1. 280
    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (MarcusBrutus)
  2. 281
    Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (chrisharpe)
  3. 282
    ‘Salem's Lot by Stephen King (JGKC, sturlington)
    sturlington: Stephen King's homage to Dracula.
  4. 230
    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (HollyMS, HollyMS)
  5. 288
    Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (becca58203, Morteana)
  6. 151
    In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu (daisycat)
    daisycat: 'Carmilla' is meant to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker's story.
  7. 130
    The Vampyre by John William Polidori (Andibook)
    Andibook: Polidori's The Vampyre is one of, if not the, oldest vampire novel. His ‘gentleman vampire,’ diverging from the more zombie-like vampire of folklore, influenced the entire genre – including the famous vampire Dracula.
  8. 120
    Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales by Bram Stoker (Sylak)
    Sylak: Contains the deleted first chapter removed before publication.
  9. 120
    Renfield: Slave of Dracula by Barbara Hambly (Ape)
    Ape: Renfield's point of view.
  10. 123
    The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (cammykitty)
  11. 80
    Dracula: A Biography of Vlad the Impaler, 1431-1476 by Radu Florescu (myshelves)
  12. 70
    Varney the Vampyre or The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer (Sylak)
  13. 70
    In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires by Raymond T. McNally (Booksloth)
  14. 70
    Anno Dracula by Kim Newman (wertygol)
  15. 103
    The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (SandSing7)
  16. 51
    The Beetle by Richard Marsh (jonathankws)
    jonathankws: So much better than Dracula, this Gothic horror novel was published in the same year and was initially far more successful.
  17. 51
    The Insidious Doctor Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer (leigonj)
    leigonj: Both are adventure/ detective stories in which the heroes must battle to stop mysterious, evil, foreign antagonists striking at the heart of the British Empire.
  18. 73
    Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (mcenroeucsb)
  19. 41
    The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen (myshelves)
  20. 31
    Winterwood by Patrick McCabe (edwinbcn)

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Este libro es una excelente manera de contar una historia. Además de asentar bases de la literatura de terror de sus días. ( )
  diegocorral | Mar 14, 2024 |
The audio production on this edition was very good. Classic horror story. Blah! ( )
  jfranzone | Feb 14, 2024 |
This novel, which I have avoided for decades, was far more engaging than I had expected. It is narrated through a series of letters, news articles, and journal entries by the various primary characters who interact with the mysterious, ancient Romanian count with red lips who corrupts the Victorian women he encounters. I am sure there are deeper meanings in the book – I sense anxiety over the rise of science over religion – but I did not dwell on any of that. The characters are rather flat and too much alike in many ways, but I did get the message about sexual corruption in Victorian society. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
Creio que o título dispensa apresentações. O Drácula de Bram Stoker é um clássico e uma das grandes obras-primas da literatura. Esta história de horror gótico transporta-nos imediatamente para uma atmosfera arrepiante de final do século XIX. Fiquei impressionado com as descrições do castelo assombrado do Drácula e das paisagens da Transilvânia, que transmitem uma sensação de desconforto e suspense desde o início até ao fim da narrativa. Sou um leitor que costuma prestar mais atenção à narrativa do que propriamente à atmosfera, mas neste caso fiquei completamente envolvido pelo ambiente criado pelo autor. Sem dúvida, um dos pontos fortes deste livro.

Mas o que mais gostei no livro foram as personagens. O Conde Drácula faz parte do imaginário popular por algum motivo: qualquer cena em que ele apareça prende imediatamente o leitor, num misto de terror e fascínio pelo personagem muito difícil de alcançar. A sua presença maléfica é o principal fio condutor da narrativa, seja através da sua ação direta ou indireta. Só a ideia dele já chega para meter os cabelos em pé! O relato da última viagem do navio Demeter é um hino ao horror, e isto feito puramente num capítulo de relato indireto, que até deu origem a um filme.

Os heróis da história também são personagens incrivelmente bem construídas, desde o professor Van Helsing, ao Jonathan e Mina Harker, passando por Lucy, Dr. Seward, Arthur e Quincy. Este grupo acaba por se unir devido às ações de Drácula e cria uma irmandade tão unida e bonita de se ver, numa luta do bem contra o mal para travar o sinistro vilão. A relação entre eles e as distâncias que estavam dispostos a percorrer para se protegerem foi muito bem descrita e claramente um dos pontos fortes do livro.

E não poderia falar de personagens icónicas sem referir Renfield. Este personagem incrivelmente complexo e rico que foi interpretado por Tom Waits na versão do filme em 1992, vai ter agora um novo filme com título homónimo do seu nome. Basta ler um capítulo em que ele apareça para perceber o porquê: é completamente polarizante!

Outro ponto forte do livro é o seu estilo narrativo, ao qual me surpreendeu pela positiva porque não o esperava. A história é-nos apresentada através de uma coleção de entradas de diários de várias personagens, cartas, telegramas e artigos de jornais. Esta forma de relatar a história adiciona um sentido de realismo e intimidade que nos faz sentir cada vez mais parte da experiência deste mundo e dos horrores do Conde Drácula. E também devido a isso nos permite ir conhecendo e tendo uma ligação mais próxima com cada uma das nossas personagens e melhor entender as suas motivações.

O único ponto menos bom para mim foi a conclusão, um pouco abrupta demais. O que atesta que na verdade queria continuar a fazer parte do mundo deste livro, e que não se acabasse.

Os temas deste livro são subtis e seguramente não apanhei tudo, mas destaco os temas da tentação, do desejo, da eterna luta do bem contra o mal, do medo do desconhecido, do contraste entre tradição e modernidade e do papel da religião e ciência. Stoker questiona neste livro os limites da moralidade e as distâncias a que seríamos capazes de ir para proteger os nossos entes queridos.

O Drácula de Bram Stoker, aos dias de hoje, continua a inspirar inúmeras adaptações, quer seja em filmes, televisão ou literatura. É uma obra-prima não só de horror, mas também de mistério, romance ou aventura. É uma narrativa intemporal, com personagens inesquecíveis e marcantes que te vão deixar preso num mundo onde reina a escuridão. O Drácula de Bram Stoker já não é mais um livro ou uma personagem, mas uma lenda que vive no nosso imaginário coletivo, imortal por direito. ( )
  Jcpinto91 | Jan 25, 2024 |
This is quite long for what it is, but I enjoyed the pacing and steady atmosphere building throughout. The beginning is great, with so many inexplicable eerie happenings, and I love that we meet Count Dracula right off the bat. This shows its age with frequent sexism, and could have been a little less repetitive, but it's a classic for a good reason. ( )
  KallieGrace | Jan 3, 2024 |
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Classic vampire tale is sexier and darker than you remember.

added by vibesandall | editCommon Sense Media, Rhiannon Bruni (Jul 12, 2017)
 
Stoker’s ‘Dracula‘ has such incredible staying power partly because of the manner in which it captures the anxieties of the age and how such anxieties continue to speak for humans even to this day.
added by vibesandall | editBook Analysis, Israel Njoku
 

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How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of latter-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them.
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To my dear friend Hommy-Beg
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3 May. Bistritz.—Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
Quotations
I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
I heard once of an American who so defined faith: ‘that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue'.
Denin die Todtem reiten schnell. For the dead travel fast.
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This is the main work for Dracula. It should not be combined with any adaptation, children's version, abridgment, etc. If this is your book but you have an abridged or adapted version, please update your title and/or ISBN, so that your copy can be combined with the correct abridgment or adaptation.

6305078181 is for the 1979 movie directed by John Badham.

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Having deduced the double identity of Count Dracula, a wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

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A rich selection of background and source materials is provided in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.

Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijsktra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.
Haiku summary
Estate agent gets
It in the neck. Should avoid
Transylvania.
(abbottthomas)
Dinner at the Count's.
Should be fun. No, don't bother
to bring any wine.

(Carnophile)
Dracula could teach
Edward not to sparkle so.
He hates those books too.
(hillaryrose7)

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