Description

Category:LiteratureLiterary FictionLiterary Fiction-Lfi
Publisher: Readings | ISBN: 9789695100417 | Pages: 346

Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, visits Transylvania, Romania, to help Dracula, a local count, buy a house in London. It does not take him long to find out that his client is a vampire. Harker escapes. Dracula, anyhow, reaches England and, then, begins a series of uncanny occurrences of a new kind, never experienced by English people. Told through letters, diary notes and articles, Dracula is a quintessential work of horror fiction. The only criticism it receives is for its too much gothic content. Recently, it has also been commended for its symbolism of the horrors of suppressed sexuality and desire in the Victorian Age. It has been made into films on more than thirty occasions.

About the Author

Bram Stoker (Abraham Stoker) was born in Clontarf, Ireland in 1847. He started his career as a theatre critic in his early life. His big moment came when he met Henry Irving having reviewed his Hamlet. They became lifelong friends. After his marriage, Stoker moved to London where he finally became the business manager of Irving s Lyceum Theatre. He travelled extensively in Irving s company which helped him set his fiction in many a land and lore. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction throughout his life. Although many of his novels, short stories, articles and other non-fiction works remain quite popular even today, his name invariably resounds with Dracula, his magnum opus, and arguably the best horror novel ever written. He died in London in 1912.