Dracula (Norton Critical Editions) |
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by: Bram Stoker Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.8 EAN: 9780393970128 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0393970124 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: December 17, 1996 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Features:
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Editorial Review: 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. Product Description: The aristocratic vampire that haunts the Transylvanian countryside has captivated readers' imaginations since it was first published in 1897. Hindle asserts that Dracula depicts an embattled man's struggle to recover his "deepest sense of himself as a man", making it the "ultimate terror myth". Average Rating:
 Rating:  - awesome book by bram stokerawesome 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 Rating: - Still holds up!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 Rating:  - Boring, Wordy, RepetitiveI'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. Rating: - BORING BOOKDidn't enjoy reading this book. I don't understand all the fuss made of it over the years. Rating: - Can't Touch ThisThat 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. Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display |
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