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    Dracula

    novel by Bram Stoker

    This article is about the novel. For the character, see Count Dracula.

    Dracula is an Gothichorror 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. Harker flees after learning that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunts and kills him.

    Mostly written in the s, Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from folklore and history. Scholars have suggested various figures as the inspiration for Dracula, including the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler and the Countess Elizabeth Báthory, but recent scholarship suggests otherwise. He probably found the name Dracula in Whitby's public librar

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      Bram Stoker

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      This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, including friendships with many of the major figures of the age and as manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, with his literary career. It offers critical evaluation of Dracula and of Stoker's lesser-known works, yielding much interest when reinserted into their original cultural contexts.

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      'Lisa Hopkins's literary life of Bram Stoker is indispensable to anyone interested in the author of Dracula. Using Stoker's most famous novel as a touchstone, Hopkins moves out into the lesser known works and discusses them through the lens of Stoker's learning, travels, and anställda relationships. Written with verve and tydlig förståelse , Bram Stoker: A Literary Life takes us, like Stoker's own fiction, into mysterious caves and passageways, and we are richer for havi