by Bram Stoker & Glennis Byron (editor) (Author)
Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: "It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror."A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 493
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 30 Dec 1997
ISBN 10: 1551111365
ISBN 13: 9781551111360
Comments:
No other edition so carefully assembles a wealth of contextual material, nor succeeds so admirably in drawing the reader into Stoker's cultural milieu. - David Glover, University of Southampton
Glennis Byron has done a superb job of collecting just the right supplementary materials to accompany the novel, including reviews by Stoker's contemporaries, biographical material, information on the social and cultural topics that concerned Stoker and his readers, even a tourist guide to London in the late nineteenth-century. - Carol A. Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology
Valuable for both research and classroom use. All Dracula scholars will want to own this useful, very reasonably-priced text. - Margaret L. Carter, Bradley University
Glennis Byron's succinct yet comprehensive introduction provides a useful overview of critical responses to Stoker's text. Even more valuable is the inclusion of supplementary material (some of which has not, until now been readily available) that clearly places Dracula in its historical context. - Elizabeth Miller, Memorial University
No other edition so carefully assembles a wealth of contextual material, nor succeeds so admirably in drawing the reader into Stoker's cultural milieu. - David Glover, University of Southampton
Glennis Byron has done a superb job of collecting just the right supplementary materials to accompany the novel, including reviews by Stoker's contemporaries, biographical material, information on the social and cultural topics that concerned Stoker and his readers, even a tourist guide to London in the late nineteenth-century. - Carol A. Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology
Valuable for both research and classroom use. All Dracula scholars will want to own this useful, very reasonably-priced text. - Margaret L. Carter, Bradley University
Glennis Byron's succinct yet comprehensive introduction provides a useful overview of critical responses to Stoker's text. Even more valuable is the inclusion of supplementary material (some of which has not, until now been readily available) that clearly places Dracula in its historical context. - Elizabeth Miller, Memorial University
No other edition so carefully assembles a wealth of contextual material, nor succeeds so admirably in drawing the reader into Stoker's cultural milieu. -- David Glover, University of Southampton
Glennis Byron has done a superb job of collecting just the right supplementary materials to accompany the novel, including reviews by Stoker's contemporaries, biographical material, information on the social and cultural topics that concerned Stoker and his readers, even a tourist guide to London in the late nineteenth-century. -- Carol A. Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology
Valuable for both research and classroom use. All Dracula scholars will want to own this useful, very reasonably-priced text. -- Margaret L. Carter, Bradley University
Glennis Byron's succinct yet comprehensive introduction provides a useful overview of critical responses to Stoker's text. Even more valuable is the inclusion of supplementary material (some of which has not, until now been readily available) that clearly places Dracula in its historical context. -- Elizabeth Miller, Memorial University
No other edition so carefully assembles a wealth of contextual material, nor succeeds so admirably in drawing the reader into Stoker's cultural milieu. -- David Glover, University of Southampton
Glennis Byron has done a superb job of collecting just the right supplementary materials to accompany the novel, including reviews by Stoker's contemporaries, biographical material, information on the social and cultural topics that concerned Stoker and his readers, even a tourist guide to London in the late nineteenth-century. -- Carol A. Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology
Valuable for both research and classroom use. All Dracula scholars will want to own this useful, very reasonably-priced text. -- Margaret L. Carter, Bradley University
Glennis Byron's succinct yet comprehensive introduction provides a useful overview of critical responses to Stoker's text. Even more valuable is the inclusion of supplementary material (some of which has not, until now been readily available) that clearly places Dracula in its historical context. -- Elizabeth Miller, Memorial University