BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA ~ WRITTEN IN FORM OF DIARY ENTRIES ~ NICE HC

Description: SHIPPING IN COVID TIMES: Please note that at this time, the post office is VERY VERY slow and if you need this by a specific time, you'll need to select Priority Mail or it may take a couple weeks or longer to get there. I know it's more expensive, but it's the only way to insure a quick delivery... NO RISK PURCHASE! See Below** DRACULA By Bram Stoker NOTE: The picture shown is NOT the actual book but is used for reference. This is the exact same item and issue, but may be in different condition than shown. See the physical description below** Unquestionably the most famous vampire story ever written, Dracula has mesmerized readers since it's publication in 1897. A gothic tale of escalating dread and dreamlike eroticism, it tells how Englishman Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to help his client Count Dracula move to London. But Dracula has other plans and imprisons Harker in his hellish castle. Soon afterward in England, Dracula seduces and slowly drains the life from Lucy Westerna, best friend of Harker's fiancee, Mina Murray. Thus begins his reign of terror, unless Jonathan and Mina, together with their friends Professor Abraham van Helsing and Dr. Seward can rid the world of the undead Count. From Brooke Allen's Introduction to Dracula : "Upon its publication in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula was seen as nothing more than a slightly cheesy thriller, if an unusually successful one. Most such "shilling shockers" were forgotten within a year or two. But this one was different: Over the course of the next century Count Dracula, the aristocratic vampire, left his natural habitat between the pages of a book and insinuated himself into the world's consciousness as few other fictional characters have ever done. Now, more than a hundred years after his appearance in print, Dracula has shed the status of "fictional character" altogether and has become an authentic modern myth. Why has this odd and terrifying figure exerted such a hold on our collective imagination? Why does the image of the vampire both attract and repel, in apparently equal measure? If, as has been argued, Dracula owes its success to its reflection of specific anxieties within the culture, why then has its power continued unabated throughout more than a century of unprecedented social change? Late-Victorian anxieties and concerns were rather different from our own, yet the lure of the vampire and the persistence of his image seem as strong as ever. Dracula's durability may in part be due to Tod Browning's 1931 film, for when most people think of the character, it is Bela Lugosi's portrayal that springs to mind. But in spite of memorable performances by Lugosi and by Dwight Frye as Renfield, the film is awkward and clunky, even laughable in parts; in terms of shocking, terrible, and gorgeous images, it cannot compare with the novel that inspired it. It is hard to believe that, on its own, it would have created such an indelible impact. Once Dracula became lodged in the popular imagination, it began to accrue ever-new layers of meaning and topicality. The novel has provided rich material for every fad and fancy of twentieth-century exegesis. It has been deconstructed by critics of the Freudian, feminist, queer theory, and Marxist persuasions, and has had something significant to offer each of these fields. Today, in the age of AIDS, the exchange of blood has taken on a new meaning, and Dracula has taken on a new significance in its turn. For post-Victorian readers, it has been a little too easy to impose a pat "Freudian" reading on the novel, in which the vampire represents deviant, dangerous sexuality, while the vampire-hunters stand for sexual repression in the form of bourgeois marriage and overly spiritualized relationships. This interpretation certainly contains a large element of truth, but the novel's themes are much richer and more complex than such a reading might suggest. Readers coming to Dracula for the first time should try to peel away the layers of preconception that they can hardly help bringing to the novel. We should try to forget Bela Lugosi; we should try to forget easy (and anachronistic) Freudian cliches; we should put out of our minds all our received twentieth- and twenty-first-century notions of friendship and love, both heterosexual and homosexual. If we let the novel stand on its own, just as it appeared to Bram Stoker's contemporaries in the last years of the Victorian era, what exactly do we find? Written in the form of letters, news tidbits & diary entries, Dracula chronicles the vampire's journey from his Transylvania castle to the night time streets of London. There, he searches for the blood he needs to survive. In Dracula, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will undoubtedly outlive us all! 418pp A physical description follows... To see all of the other SciFi, Fantasy & Horror books I have listed so far, CLICK HERE or go to the ADVANCED SEARCH in eBay and copy and paste the word ISHKABIBEL into the eBay search box, and then check the SEARCH TITLE AND DESCRIPTIONS box. Buy 3 and I'll ship 'em for FREE (within the USA via media mail!)Sets of multiples counts as one. TO GET THE FREE SHIPPING DO NOT automatically pay. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW! If you don't I can't go back and fix it later! Why not look now?! Regarding Auctions & the Item... I am a private collector of art, books, music and "stuff" and am very picky about what I buy. I don't like surprises when I buy things from auctions any more than you do. I promise everything there is to know about this item is in this description. 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Price: 8.97 USD

Location: Walnut, California

End Time: 2025-01-27T00:01:06.000Z

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