Dracula

Zusatztext “Stoker gives us the most remarkable scenes of horror...each is unforgettable! and no movie has quite done justice to any of them.”—Stephen King Informationen zum Autor Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was born in Dublin. After attending Dublin University, he spent ten years as an Irish civil servant, trying to keep up his writing in his free time. By 1871, he had become the drama critic for the Dublin Mail and had gained experience as a newspaper editor, reporter, and short story writer. In 1878 he became the personal assistant to Sir Henry Irving, the foremost Shakespearean actor of his day, accompanying him on tours and managing Irving’s theater. After Irving’s death in 1905, Stoker worked on the literary staff of the London Telegraph . Dracula , his most famous work, was published in 1897.   Leonard Wolf is a teacher, an author, a leading translator of Yiddish literature, and an award-winning authority on Gothic literature and film. He has edited such volumes as Wolf’s Complete Book of Terror and Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Literature .   Jeffrey Meyers has published forty-five books and 630 articles on literature, film, and art. A distinguished biographer, he’s written lives of Hemingway, Lawrence, Conrad, Poe, Fitzgerald, Frost, Orwell, Bogart, and Modigliani. He’s had twenty-five works translated into twelve languages and published on six continents. He is one of ten Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2005 he received an Award in Literature “to honor exceptional achievement” from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Klappentext SOON TO BE A NETFLIX MINISERIES! Bram Stoker's gothic horror masterpiece pits good against evil and life against death, all under the thrall of the original vampire... Count Dracula sleeps in a silent tomb beneath his desolate castle. His eyes are stony and his cheeks are deathly pale. But on his lips, there is a mocking smile-and a trickle of fresh blood. He has been dead for centuries, yet he may never die... Here begins the most celebrated vampire story in history, a tale of age-old evil that is forever new. With its haunting mix of suspense and horror, Bram Stoker's Dracula is a novel of compelling power. Reader, be warned: once you enter Castle Dracula, you might not escape its baleful spell-even after you close this book. With an Introduction by Leonard Wolf and an Afterword by Jeffrey MeyersChapter I Jonathan Harker’s Journal (Kept in shorthand.) 3 May. Bistritz.1–Left Munich at 8:35 p. m., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube,2 which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule. We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh.3 Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem., get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.4 I found my smattering of German very useful here; indeed, I don’t know how I should be able to get on without it. Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the British Museum,5 and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania: it had struck me that some foreknowl...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jeffrey Meyers, Bram Stoker, Leonard Wolf
• Con la collaborazione di: Leonard Wolf (Introduzione), Jeffrey Meyers (Postfazione)
• Editore: Signet USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.09.2007
• EAN: 9780451530660
• ISBN: 978-0-451-53066-0
• Pagine: 416
• Dimensioni: 105 mm x 172 mm x 15 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi