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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.
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.
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.
Was soll man zu diesem Buch noch sagen? Es ist einfach KLASSE. Sicher, es ist schwer zu lesen, aufgrund der "alten" Sprach- und Schreibweise. Doch den Kampf kann man gewinnen. :) ( )
A solid story that has become a classic through its many different re-imaginings, but unfortunately not because of the artful storytelling of the original. Told in the form of diary entries (even though all characters tend to talk with the chivalrous tone and length of Don Quixote), I could never stop thinking that there were many ways to write the damn thing with better form. First of all, it could have easily been half the size. It moves either tortuously slow or break-neck fast. Not to mention that the characters are stupid, something that I really can't stand. "Hmm, that girl looks really pale, just like that other girl that also looked pale and became a vampire. Perhaps I should check her neck for any marks? Nah, she's probably just tired..." You can't just write a book as a collection of diaries and never consider that people can realize things just by writing them down. In general, if anyone's interested, just read the plot summary somewhere and then go read Frankenstein, a much better book. ( )
Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic horror classic is narrated through the journals and diaries of Jonathan Harker, Dr John Seward and Professor van Helsing along with newspaper articles and letters between best friends Lucy and Mina.
The descriptions of Jonathan Harker’s journey to Transylvania and imprisonment in the castle tying up the count’s affairs are sublime. The spine-tingling otherworldliness, tension, fear, horror and foreboding in all its graphic, blood-curdling glory had me totally hooked. Images of Dracula creeping out of his bedroom window and scuttling down the castle walls made me smile while the wolves, cellar and three sisters gave me the heebie-jeebies.
Whitby is also described in awesome, atmospheric detail so I could picture the creeping mists, crashing waves, ruined abbey and ethereal, somnambulist Lucy encountering Count Dracula amongst the gravestones as if I was actually there.
Unfortunately I didn’t find the rest of the book quite as gripping although there are some great bits: Dr Seward’s “zoophagous maniac” Renfield, the bloofer lady and the wry descriptions of Londoners, accent and all.
The language and role of Victorian women may be dated but the legend of the blood-sucking count lives on through numerous films and novels thanks to Abraham Stoker.
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.
Dedication
To my dear friend Hommy-Beg
First words
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'.
Denn die Todten reiten schnell. For the dead travel fast.
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
A brave man's hand can speak for itself; it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.
We thought her dying whilst she slept. And sleeping when she died.
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves.
Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this.
Last words
“We want no proofs. We ask none to believe us! This boy will some day know what a brave and gallant woman his mother is. Already he knows her sweetness and loving care. Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake.”
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6305078181 is for the 1979 movie directed by John Badham.
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.
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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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Sicher, es ist schwer zu lesen, aufgrund der "alten" Sprach- und Schreibweise. Doch den Kampf kann man gewinnen. :) (