Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival. In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
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Readers generally regard Dracula as a memorable gothic classic, though their enthusiasm varies considerably. Many praise its haunting atmosphere, vivid emotional tone, and lasting influence on vampire fiction, while some found it less frightening or immersive than expected.
The diary, letter, newspaper, and report format is widely seen as inventive, giving the novel a distinctive multi-perspective structure, and several readers especially enjoyed the memorable characters and richly detailed prose. At the same time, the pacing is a frequent criticism: some sections feel repetitive, overlong, or weighed down by extended reflections, while the nineteenth-century language can require patience. Readers who appreciate atmospheric classics, epistolary storytelling, and a slower gothic style are likely to value Dracula, whereas those seeking consistently fast-paced horror may find it uneven but rewarding.
Thank God! this is the country where bribery can do anything, and we are well supplied with money. We have only to make sure that the ship cannot come into port between sunset and sunrise without our being warned, and we shall be safe. Judge Moneybag will settle this case, I think!
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In the records are such words as 'stregoica'—witch, 'ordog,' and 'pokol'—Satan and hell; and in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as 'wampyr,' which we all understand too well.
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