Dracula (Everyman's Library #330, Relaunched Series)

STOKER, Bram

ISBN 10: 0307593851 / ISBN 13: 9780307593856

Editore: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2010

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Ex-library. An Everyman's Library reprint edition of Bram Stoker's horror classic, first published in 1897. With an introduction by Joan Acocella and a chronology, showing parallel literary and historical events during the author's life. Entry no. 330 in the "relaunched" version of the EL series. --- In full maroon cloth-covered boards with spine titling & decorations and on black spine block, sewn-in maroon ribbon placemarker. Volume wrapped in jacket with detail from a Thomas Lawrence painting of a young woman to front panel. --- Evidence of former ownership by a lending library includes pasting removal evidence, rubberstampings (some blacked over), and due date slip pasted to rear endpapers. Also with small white spotting to cloth, else a bright, tightly-bound, sound copy. The dust jacket has been pasted to the back cover, it is otherwise bright, intact and unclipped ($23.00/26.95).; Ex-Library; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xli, 386, [10, ads] pages. Codice articolo 88485

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Titolo: Dracula (Everyman's Library #330, Relaunched...

Casa editrice: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 2010

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Good+

Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good

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Riassunto:

Since its publication in 1897, Dracula has enthralled generation after generation of readers with the same spellbinding power with which Count Dracula enthralls his victims. Though Bram Stoker did not invent vampires, and in fact based his character’s life-in-death on extensive research in European folklore, his novel elevated the nocturnal creature to iconic stature, spawning a genre of stories and movies that flourishes to this day. But a century of imitations has done nothing to diminish the power of Stoker’s tale. As his chilling, suave monster stalks his prey from a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania to an insane asylum in England to the bedrooms of his swooning female victims, the drama is infused with a more and more exquisite measure of sensuality and suspense.

Dracula is a classic of Gothic horror, an undying wellspring of modern mythology, and an irresistible entertainment.

Recensione:

"Those who cannot find their own reflection in Bram Stoker's still-living creation are surely the undead."