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Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters , diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula .
Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his life, he was better known as the personal assistant of the actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End 's Lyceum Theatre , which Irving owned.
The Dmitry was the inspiration for the Demeter, the vessel by which the vampiric title character arrives in England, in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. [2] [6] Stoker spent a month holidaying at Whitby with his wife Florence and son Noel in August 1890. [6] [7] He is known to have discussed the wreck of the Dmitry with the local coastguard. [8]
The Dracula book. Scarecrow Press. Stoker, Bram; Eighteen-Bisang, Robert; Miller, Elizabeth (2008). Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition. McFarland. ISBN 9780786451869. Turley Houston, Gail (2005). From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction. Volume 48 of Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature ...
"Dracula," the Gothic, mysterious and supernatural vampire novel from 1897 may have been set in Transylvania and England but its author, Stoker, was a Dubliner. "I read 'Dracula' as a child and it ...
Count Dracula (/ ˈ d r æ k j ʊ l ə,-j ə-/) is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction.
Billy Campbell in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - he is portrayed faithfully to his counterpart in the novel. Alessio Boni in Dracula (2002) - here the events are updated to modern times and Quincey is a businessman specialising in money swindles. Keir Knight (as "Quincy Morris of Texas") in Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
The comic novel Dracula's Diary by Michael Geare and Michael Corby (ISBN 978-0825301438) completely re-tells the Stoker novel, with the young Count Dracula (who has been learning to act like a true British gentleman) becoming a secret agent for Her Majesty's government and Van Helsing an enemy agent for a foreign power who is continually ...