Essential Novelists - Bram Stoker: the victorian vampire

by Bram Stoker, August Nemo

Overview

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Bram Stokerwhich areDracula and The Lair of the White Worm Bram Stokerpaved the way for vampire lore in popular culture. Stoker's stories are today included in the categories of "horror fiction", "romanticized Gothic" stories, and "melodrama." They are classified alongside other "works of popular fiction" such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which also used the "myth-making" and story-telling method of having multiple narrators telling the same tale from different perspectives Novels selected for this book: - Dracula - The Lair of the White Worm This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783967241662
Publisher:	Tacet Books
Publication date:	05/07/2020
Series:	Essential Novelists , #65
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	626 KB

About the Author

Bram Stoker (1847 -1912 ) studied mathematics at Dublin's Trinity College and embarked on his longtime role as an assistant to actor Sir Henry Irving in the 1870s. He also began carving out a second career as a writer, publishing his first novel, The Primrose Path, in 1875. Stoker published his most famous work, Dracula, in 1897, though he died before the fictional vampire would achieve widespread popularity though numerous film and literary adaptations in the 20th century.