Oct 11, 2008
Dracula | Dracula
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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