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| Dracula (Penguin Popular Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 10647
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 014062063X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140620634
ASIN: 014062063X
Publication Date: January 25, 2007
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Condition: see my feedback .honest female U.K. based seller. Read a few times
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 Charming, dark and seductive... April 21, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Before reading this book I remember I had a lot of ideas about the book Dracula. One being I never conceived that it would be a narrative from one of the characters. I thought it would be an account of Dracula's life from beginning to end so yes it was a shock but a nice one as this meant I wasn't reading a documentary which is just fine by me. What also I loved about this book was that the power came from Dracula through Helsing. We feel his danger most powerfully then, creepy but true for me. The voyage has been on the terrifying things I've read (contributed by the fact I was reading at midnight).When you read this you can see why this book is the mother of all horror books. Underneath the blood lust lies schemes, plots and desire to come out on top. Too human for me (that everyone has got it in them to be ruthless like Dracula because it's survival of the fittest).
Symphony of the night April 5, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The miracle of Dracula is this. Despite having watched dozens of movies, TV shows that feature vampires, as well as a large number of spoofs, the novel Dracula after a hundred years or so still manages to frighten.
The story is told through a series of diaries, written accounts of events from the point of view of the main characters. The story is still frightening with lots of blood and hellish spiritual stuff going on that just feels eerie. The pace slows down a little at about two thirds of the way through but at which point you won't care. And as there hasn't been a truly accurate film so far chances are you won't know the story until you've read the book.
For me though Stoker's trump card is the character of Van Helsing. An expert in all things spiritual and blasphemous the warm and caring Van Helsing rallies his friends into defeating this strange evil. Not since I encountered Allan Quartmain in King Solomn's Mines have I found a character so likable and fascinating.
This is one classic that has lost very little of considerable power.
One of my Favourite books ever March 22, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Dracula is without doubt the prime vampire novel. Bram Stoker writes with tension and passion, forfeiting overly gruesome images for restless tension. This novel is a must for lovers of 'horror', but equally can be read as a historic representation of late 19th Century culture. A literary classic.
 Dracula - A real Horror Creation October 7, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
`Imagine a loved one, not the family pet but a brother, or sister, maybe a parent and then imagine them dead...' I don't mean to completely deflate the happy feeling you have currently achieved by reading the previous articles in this paper but I need you to understand, unlike, `A Series Of,' not so very, `Unfortunate Events,' this story is written to tear out your most horrifying fears and hold it dripping before your eyes.
I'm dreadfully sorry but now that I have warned you its time to go on. `Imagine stepping through the marble doors into their catacomb, then, looking down you notice the coffin is ajar and staring up with blind eyes is the dead, closer still and there is a trickle of sapphire running from the corner of its mouth and bending over, gently lifting its upper lip pointed tips rest purely in front of an open throat.
This may be too dramatic, scenes from an overly zealous horror story, but then imagine having to saw through your loved ones neck and place that head, the smile long gone now, in a sack and ram a stake through its heart so that he can finally be at peace. I warned you, this is not a novel for those that like a gentle thrill, a mild spine tingling sensation. This is Victorian death, all too normal then. Exploring the nightmares of those that did not fear the mindless journalier of death. It is an insight into how we feel in the most horrific situations and brings our most ghastly nightmares back from our sleep. Unlike an unrealistic, `Series of Unfortunate Events,' or even a mindless mockery like the movie, `Van Helsing,' all of which are as scary as Monster Inc, Lord Farcwade or some such Pixar creation. Unlike all of these this novel is generally quite horrific. A blood red ruby amongst as many fakes.
BETTER THAN ANY OTHER INTERPRATATION August 14, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
OKay. Someone mentions Nosferatu below. It was based on Stokers book but Maurnu was unable to get the right from Stokers widow. Cleaver woman, I wish it had remained that way. While Vampire literature and film (I've just written a vampire short myself) is awesome, nothing, I mean NOTHING tops this story.
Told from multiple viewpoints it's exciting, very sexy, exotic and scary. Give it a go. It's wonderful.
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