Dracula

by Stoker, Bram; Hindle, Maurice; Hindle, Maurice; Frayling, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780141439846
• ISBN10: 014143984X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-29
• Publisher: Penguin Group

Summary

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and a lunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into human identity, sanity, and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. For this completely updated edition, Maurice Hindle has revised his introduction, list of further reading and textual notes, and added two new appendices: Stoker's essay on censorship and his interview with Winston Churchill, both published in 1908. Christopher Frayling's preface discusses Stoker's significance and the influences that contributed to his creation of the Dracula myth.

Author Biography

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was born in Ireland and attended Trinity College in Dublin. He joined the Irish Civil Service, then became involved in the theater. He wrote seventeen books.

Maurice Hindle edited Frankenstein and Dracula for Penguin Classics and teaches at the Open University.

Maurice Hindle edited Frankenstein and Dracula for Penguin Classics and teaches at the Open University.

Christopher Frayling teaches at London's Royal College of Art.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Chronology	xiii
Introduction	xvii
Further Reading	xl
A Note on the Text	xlvi
Dracula	1	(402)
Appendix I: Bram Stoker's Correspondence with Walt Whitman (1872--6)	403	(9)
Appendix II: Charlotte Stoker's Account of `The Cholera Horror' in a Letter to Bram Stoker (c.1875)	412	(7)
Appendix III: Bram Stoker's Article `The Censorship of Fiction' (1908)	419	(12)
Appendix IV: Bram Stoker's Interview with Winston Churchill (1908)	431	(8)
Notes	439