The new anotated Dracula
Bram Stoker, Leslie S. Klinger (Editor, Writer of added commentary), Janet Byrne (Researcher), Neil Gaiman (Writer of introduction)
A prize-winning Victorian scholar reprises the international success of his New Annotated Sherlock Holmes with this visually-appealing edition of the 1897 text of Bram Stoker's Dracula. This annotated edition examines all of the evidence, including contemporary travel books, scientific texts, Victorian encyclopedias - as well as Stoker's own notes for the narrative and the manuscript itself. For over a century, readers of Dracula have been seduced by the story of Jonathan Harker's visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania. Soon after Harker's hair-raising escape, a mysterious Russian ship runs aground in England with the blood-sucking Dracula on board. Little does Mina Murray, Harker's fiancée, know that her good friend Lucy Westenra is already succumbing to the vampire's assault, despite the valiant efforts of the Dutch doctor Abraham Van Helsing. Then Mina falls prey to the Count. No devoted reader can forget the dramatic hunt by Van Helsing, the Harkers, and their friends to seek out and destroy Dracula before Mina's horrifying transformation into a vampire is completed. Readers will encounter over 1,500 illuminating annotations that provide background information on the language, customs, and history of Victorian England and fin de siècle Europe. Adding to this literary bonanza are esoteric maps, vintage Victorian photographs, and campy illustrations culled from countless stage and film productions, from the classic film Nosferatu to Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. Especially appealing will be the author's essays on the career of Bram Stoker (1847-1912), the origins of vampire mythology and science, and popular parodies and pastiches (including the Anne Rice series and Buffy the Vampire Slayer). -- Adapted from dust jacket description
Print Book, English, ©2008
First edition
W.W. Norton & Co., New York, ©2008