Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, in the end, kill him. Dracula was mostly written in the 1890s. Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history. Some scholars have suggested that the character of Dracula was inspired by historical figures like the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler or the countess Elizabeth Báthory, but there is widespread disagreement. Stoker's notes mention neither figure. He found the name Dracula in Whitby's public library while holidaying there, picking it because he thought it meant devil in Romanian. Following its publication, Dracula was positively received by reviewers who pointed to its effective use of horror. In contrast, reviewers who wrote negatively of the novel regarded it as excessively frightening. Comparisons to other works of Gothic fiction were common, including its structural similarity to Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White (1859). In the past century, Dracula has been situated as a piece of Gothic fiction. Modern scholars explore the novel within its historical context—the Victorian era—and discuss its depiction of gender roles, sexuality, and race. Dracula is one of the most famous pieces of English literature. Many of the book's characters have entered popular culture as archetypal versions of their characters; for example, Count Dracula as the quintessential vampire, and Abraham Van Helsing as an iconic vampire hunter. The novel, which is in the public domain, has been adapted for film over 30 times, and its characters have made numerous appearances in virtually all media.
Dracula
Forfatter:
Oppleser:
Språk:
engelsk
Format:
Long John Silver - L'intégrale
BLYND, Matthieu Lauffray
audiobookThe Pope's Butcher : Based on the True Story of a Serial Killer in the Medieval Vatican
Joseph C. Gioconda
audiobookDracula Full Cast Drama :
audiobookAllan Quartermain
Henry Rider Haggard
audiobookbookKing Solomon's Mines (Prometheus Classics)(Active TOC & Free Audiobook)
Henry Rider Haggard, Prometheus Classics
bookThe Greatest Gift : A Christmas Tale
Philip Van Doren Stern
audiobookbookOld Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
T. S. Eliot
audiobookA Christmas Carol (unabridged)
Charles Dickens
audiobookPeter Pan (Unabridged)
James M.
audiobookLong John Silver
Björn Larsson
audiobookbookDracula : A Full Cast Audio Drama
Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston
audiobookThe String of Pearls : Tale of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Horror Classic)
James Malcolm Rymer
book
The Book of Gothic Tales : Dark Fantasy Novels, Supernatural Mysteries, Horror Tales & Gothic Romances
Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Anna Katharine Green, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, John Meade Falkner, Guy De Maupassant, George Eliot, Robert Hugh Benson, Horace Walpole, Frederick Marryat, Thomas love Peacock, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Richard Marsh, Charles Robert Maturin, John William Polidori, H.G. Wells, W. W. Jacobs, William Thomas Beckford, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Eliza Parsons
book50 Masterpieces you have to read
Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Classics HQ
book50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Homer, Charles Dickens, Lyman Frank Baum, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Haggard, Wilkie Collins, H.G. Wells, Sir Walter Scott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Leo Tolstoy, Euripides, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin, James Fenimore Cooper, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, John Bunyan, Charles Darwin, Alfred Tennyson, Bram Stoker, James Joyce, Dante Alighieri, Howard Pyle, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Giovanni Boccaccio, Rudyard Kipling
bookDracula Audiobook
Bram Stoker
audiobookDracula
Bram Stoker
audiobookDracula
Bram Stoker
audiobookbookDracula
Bram Stoker
audiobookbook50 Short Story Masterpieces you have to listen before you die (Golden Deer Classics)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, O.Henry, Mark Twain, Kahlil Gibran, W. W. Jacobs, Anonymous, Thomas Jefferson, Founding Fathers, Plato, Lord Alfred Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, William Dean Howells, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leo Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bram Stoker, Sun Tzu, Edgar Allan Poe, Lao Tzu, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, Patrick Henry, H.G. Wells, Saki, Herman Melville, Clement Clarke Moore, Bret Harte, Immanuel Kant, Jack London, Henry Ford, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Perrault, Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, John Muir
audiobookDracula
Bram Stoker
audiobookbook75+ Horror Anthologies
Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Francis Marion Crawford, Robert W. Chambers
audiobookDRACULA by Bram Stoker [2025 Kindle Edition] - The #1 Classic Vampire Horror Novel that Inspired Nosferatu | FREE with Kindle Unlimited
Bram Stoker, Redhouse
bookDracula : Bram Stoker's Immortal Classic of Fear and Mystery – Exclusive Kindle Edition
Bram Stoker, Icarsus
book