Dracula (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Bram Stoker
- First Published: 1897
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Horror
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: Transylvania and England
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Gothic fiction, Horror literature, Vampire fiction
- Subjects: Voyages, Folkloric or magical people, Prisoners, Love or romance, Supernatural, Escapes, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, England or English people, Lawyers, Legends, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Wolves, Nobility, Bats, Demoniac possession, Vampires
- Locales: Purfleet, England, Transylvania, Romania, Whitby, England
Characters Discussed
Count Dracula, a vampire. A corpse during the day, he comes to life at night. He has lived for centuries by sucking blood from living people. He pursues his victims in many harrowing episodes, and is pursued in turn from England to Rumania. There his body, in transport home to his castle, is overtaken and a stake driven through the heart, making it permanently dead.
Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor. He goes to Castle Dracula to transact business with the count, whose nocturnal habits and total absence of servants puzzle Harker. Harker finds...
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- - Read the Dracula text online.
- - For teachers, the Dracula Lesson Plan.
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