Dracula

Resumen del libro

Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

For this completely updated edition, Maurice Hindle has revised his introduction, list of further reading and textual notes, and added two new appendices: Stoker's essay on censorship and his interview with Winston Churchill, both published in 1908. Christopher Frayling's preface discusses Stoker's significance and the influences that contributed to his creation of the Dracula myth.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Abraham Stokerx{0026}lt;/B nació en Dublín, Irlanda, en 1847. Tras realizar sus estudios en la universidad de dicha ciudad, trabajó durante diez años como funcionario y crítico teatral hasta que se marchó a Inglaterra en 1876. Allí trabajó como secretario y representante del actor sir Henry Irving, con quien dirigió el Lyceum Theatre de Londres. Escribió numerosos libros, entre los que se cuenta su novela x{0026}lt;I La dama del sudariox{0026}lt;/I (1909), así como varios relatos. x{0026}lt;I Drácula x{0026}lt;/I (1897), su clásica novela de terror, creó el personaje del vampiro de Transilvania, que al día de hoy ha inspirado incontables versiones, continuaciones y películas. Bram Stoker falleció en 1912.x{0026}lt;/P