Dracula (edit title)

Nisareen - So Much To Read So Little Time edited the description of Dracula 8 days ago.

• A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language,The tale begins with Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor, journeying by train and culturecarriage from England to Count Dracula's crumbling, remote castle. At first enticed by Dracula's gracious manner, Harker soon discovers that he has become onea prisoner in the castle. He also begins to see disquieting facets of the most popular novels ever written. It isDracula's nocturnal life. One night while searching for a quintessential taleway out of suspensethe castle, and horror, boasting oneagainst Dracula's strict admonition not to venture outside his room at night, Harker falls under the spell of three wanton female vampires, the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula, a tragic, night-dwelling specter who feeds uponBrides of Dracula. He is saved at the blood oflast second by the living,Count, however, who ostensibly wants to keep Harker alive just long enough to obtain needed legal advice and teachings about England and whose diabolical passions prey uponLondon (Dracula's planned travel destination was to be among the innocent,"teeming millions"). Harker barely escapes from the helpless,castle with his life. Soon Dracula is menacing Harker's devoted fiancée, Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray, and her vivacious friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy begins to waste away suspiciously and later she and the beautiful. But Dracula also stands asher mother are attacked by a wolf. Mrs Westenra, who has a bleak allegorical sagaheart condition, dies of an eternally cursedfright, and Lucy apparently dies soon after. Lucy is buried, but soon afterward the newspapers report children being whose nocturnal atrocities reflectstalked in the dark underside ofnight by beautiful lady. Realising Lucy is a vampire, she is tracked down by VanHelsing & co and staked. Around the supremely moralistic agesame time, Jonathan Harker arrives home from recuperation in which it was originally written --Budapest (where Mina joined and married him after his escape from the castle); he and Mina also join the corrupt desires that continuecoalition, who turn their attentions to plague the modern human condition. Pocket Books Enriched Classics present the great worksdealing with Dracula.

  After Dracula learns of world literature enhanced forVan Helsing and the contemporary reader. This edition of Dracula was preparedothers' plot against him, he takes revenge by Joseph Valente, Professor of Englishvisiting—and biting— Mina at least three times. Dracula also feeds Mina his blood, creating a spiritual bond between them to control her. The only way to forestall this is to kill Dracula first. Mina slowly succumbs to the Universityblood of Illinois andthe author of Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness,vampire that flows through her veins, switching back and the Questionforth from a state of Blood, who provides insight into the racial connotationsconsciousness to a state of this enduring masterpiece.semi-trance during which she is telepathically connected with Dracula. Can they save Mina in time or will Dracula claim another victim?

Necro edited the language of an edition set of Dracula 10 days ago.

• Dracula (Signet Classics)
• Dracula (Penguin Classics)
• Dracula (Penguin Popular Classics)
• Dracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
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Necro edited the language of an edition set of Dracula 10 days ago.

• Dracula (Penguin Classics)
• Dracula (Penguin Popular Classics)
• Dracula (Penguin Classics)
• Dracula

Necro edited the language of an edition set of Dracula 10 days ago.

• Dracula (Signet Classics)
• Dracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
• Dracula (Penguin Classics)
• Dracula (Wordsworth Classics)
• and 158 more...

Necro edited the language of an edition set of Dracula 10 days ago.

• Dracula (Signet Classics)
• Dracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
• Dracula (Penguin Classics)
• Dracula (Wordsworth Classics)
• and 158 more...

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Cora R edited the characters of Dracula 2 weeks ago.

• Added the description of Mina Murray: Jonathan Harker's financee.
• marked the description of Mina Murray as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Lucy Westenra: Mina's best friend.
• marked the description of Lucy Westenra as not a spoiler
• Added the description of John Seward: A doctor who runs an insane asylum.
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• Added the description of Arthur Holmwood: Lucy's finance.
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• Added the description of Quincey Morris: American friend of Arthur.
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• Added the description of Renfield: Fly-eating patient at the insane asylum.
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• Added the description of Mrs. Westenra: Lucy's mother.
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Cora R edited the characters of Dracula 2 weeks ago.

• Edited the description of Count Dracula: Evil vampire.
• Edited the spoiler-free description of Count Dracula: Transylvanian nobleman.
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• Added the description of Van Helsing: Dutch professor and leader of the group trying to destroy Dracula.
• Added the spoiler-free description of Van Helsing: Dutch professor.
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• Added the description of Jonathan Harker: Solicitor hired to assist Count Dracula in buying a home in England.
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Amanda edited the books influenced by this book of Dracula Saturday, October 31 2009.

• Added Dracula: A Classic Pop-Up Tale
• Added Bram Stoker's Dracula: A documentary journey into vampire country and the Dracula phenomenon