Dracula-A Mystery Story (Illustrated)

by Bram Stoker

Overview

A young Englishman named Jonathan Harker travels through Transylvania on a business trip. He is there to aid Count Dracula, a Transylvanian nobleman, in buying an English estate. His journey into the remote Eastern European landscape is fearsome, although initially he is charmed by the Count's generosity and intelligence. Gradually, he comes to realize that he is a prisoner in Dracula's castle, and that the Count is a demonic being who plans to prey on the teeming masses of London, which unfortunately includes Harker's fiance'e Mina Murray and her best friend Lucy Westenra. Best vampire novel ever!!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016176376
Publisher:	James Marsden
Publication date:	02/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Bram Stoker was influenced by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu's (1814-1873) Gothic vampire novella Carmilla (1872).