Dracula (Collins Classics)

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Dracula (Collins Classics)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bram Stoker
SeriesCollins Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:496
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 111
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
Classic horror and ghost stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780007420087
ClassificationsDewey:823.8
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint William Collins
Publication Date 1 January 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.' Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains. Through notes and diary entries, Harker keeps track of the horrors and terrors that beset him at the castle, telling his fiance Mina of the Count's supernatural powers and his own imprisonment. Although Harker eventually manages to escape and reunite with Mina, his experiences have led to a mental breakdown of sorts. Meanwhile in England, Mina's friend Lucy has been bitten and begins to turn into a vampire. With the help of Professor Van Helsing, a previous suitor of Lucy's, Seward, and Lucy's fiance Holmwood attempt to thwart Count Dracula and his attempts on Lucy and consequently Mina's life. Arguably the most enduring Gothic novel of the 19th Century, Bram Stoker's Dracula is as chilling today in its depiction of the vampire world and its exploration of Victorian values as it was at its time of publication.

Author Biography

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) grew up listening to his mother's tales of blood-drinking fairies and vampires rising from their graves. He later managed the Lyceum Theatre in London and worked as a civil servant and a newspaper editor and reporter. Dracula, his best-known work, was published in 1897.