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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
Perhaps the most famous vampire story of all time, and the most popular, Dracula is recreated in its entirety in this unabridged audio program. The story of Dracula has been retold and recreated many times in film and on the stage in the last hundred years. Yet, it is essentially a Victorian saga, an awesome tale of a thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities embody the dark underside of an outwardly moralistic age. Dracula represents all the hidden and repressed power of male and female sexuality, of animal lust, and passion unleashed. Above all, Dracula is a quintessential story of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying creatures in literature: centuries-old Count Dracula.
Near the beginning of this tale, Jonathan Harker knows little of what is in store when he receives the following letter:
"My friend - Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well tonight. At three tomorrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and bring you to me.
Your friend, Dracula."
Amazon.com Review
Dracula is one of the few horror books to be honored by inclusion in the Norton Critical Edition series. (The others are Frankenstein, The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Metamorphosis.) This 100th-anniversary edition includes not only the complete authoritative text of the novel with illuminating footnotes, but also four contextual essays, five reviews from the time of publication, five articles on dramatic and film variations, and seven selections from literary and academic criticism. Nina Auerbach of the University of Pennsylvania (author of Our Vampires, Ourselves) and horror scholar David J. Skal (author of Hollywood Gothic, The Monster Show, and Screams of Reason) are the editors of the volume. Especially fascinating are excerpts from materials that Bram Stoker consulted in his research for the book, and his working papers over the several years he was composing it. The selection of criticism includes essays on how Dracula deals with female sexuality, gender inversion, homoerotic elements, and Victorian fears of "reverse colonization" by politically turbulent Transylvania.
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Customer Reviews:
• Boring Book
03 February, 2010
Didn't enjoy reading this book. I don't understand all the fuss made of it over the years.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Boring, Wordy, Repetitive
23 February, 2010
I'm not a thriller fan and don't think I've ever watched the dracula movie all the way through so it's not surprising that I don't like this book. I'm just 80% through with this book and every page is an effort. I try to read one chapter every day (about 10 pages), but it's very easy to put down before I get to the end of the chapter. It is wordy, repetitive, boring. I hate the half-page sentences and page-long paragraphs. On the plus side, it does have a story that follows logically and doesn't have daisies blooming in January. My perception is that the theme is good vs. evil although I'm aware that there are other views. The book is sprinkled liberally throughout with bits of wisdom, and it contains numerous Biblical references. The good guys are bound by a sense of duty. Count Dracula is evil personified. I think editing it and cutting half of it out would improve it a great deal. However, it is a classic and has lasted more than a century so who am I to judge.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Awesome Book By Bram Stoker
22 July, 2010
awesome book from the very begining to the very end if you like this book and enjoy it check out these other novels iv read and enjoyed as well
Dracula The Un-Dead
'Salem's Lot
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
- Amazon Customer Review
• Can't Touch This
25 January, 2010
That Hollywood hasn't scratched the surface of the depth of Dracula's evil is a true testament to the stridence of this piece of great literature. Stoker's novel paints a much more brutal and erudite picture of Dracula than the movies have ever managed. Perhaps because, for some lowbrow pop culture reason, vampires are regarded as vessels of fashion first, at the expense of their potential menace and depth. We're more likely to see washboard stomachs and deep tans than we are to see anything resembling the eerily esoteric Count. Perhaps Stoker's character is simply too mysterious to be duplicated on screen, or perhaps Hollywood is too illiterate, or both.
For the uninitiated, the novel's surmounting terror lurches forward in the past tense, as told through correspondence. Steven King and William Peter Blatty have undoubtedly drawn much inspiration from this, as implied horror is most often the most horrifying of all. Readers might find some other stories more frightening, but they'd be hard-pressed to find anything more genuinely creepy. Dracula's evil might surprise even fans of the film genre. Don't expect to be comforted by pretty boys in Gucci.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Still Holds Up!
28 June, 2010
Bram Stoker's Dracula still holds up after all these years. Sure, there are all the other vampire novels out there, but why not read one of the original and one of the best? I'd originally read this in high school, but re-read it recently (yikes - 22 years later!) and I was impressed how well it was written, and how well the epistolary form works here. Stoker used journal entries and letters to create this story, and this works not only to move the story forward, but also is an interesting way to paint the different characters as they talk of their interactions with Dracula. Anyone who is a horror fan really ought to read this. Heck, anyone who wants to study the craft of writing ought to read this, too!
Joel Arnold
author of Fetal Bait Apocalypse; 3 Collections in 1
- Amazon Customer Review
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