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Young lawyer Jonathan Harker journeys to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula only to discover that his nobleman client is a vampire who is thirsty for new blood. After imprisoning Harker in his castle, Dracula travels to England to seduce Jonathan’s fiancée, Mina, and the battle against an ineffable evil begins.Led by philosopher and metaphysician Professor Van Helsing—Dracula’s most indomitable adversary—Harker, Mina, and a band of allies unite, determined to confront and destroy the Count before he can escape.Bram Stoker ingeniously modernized gothic folklore by moving his vampire from traditional castle ruins to modern England. With Dracula, which has been interpreted and dissected by scholars for generations, Stoker changed the vampire novel forever.Revised edition: Previously published as Dracula, this edition of Dracula (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. Read more
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If you find yourself at home on a long, rainy weekend in winter. Perhaps the fire is going, all your friends are out of town, and there's just you and the cat; I highly recommend losing yourself in the original 'Dracula' (insert - thunderclap). If you're a reader of classics, you'll appreciate the dark symbolism and poetic language employed by Stoker. If you're not, it's one classic you might enjoy with its sinister yet saucy tale. The novel is a well known Gothic tale about the elusive Count Dracula. It is written in an epistolary style, which means it is a series of diary entries, letters, newspaper articles and so on. This style makes it interesting as we read about the story and characters from different perspectives, and we are left wondering which perspectives are reliable (insert- eerie music)! We are introduced to the story by Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor who travels to Transylvania to meet with Dracula on business. The narrative then switches back to England where Harker's fiance, Mina and her friend Lucy, pick up the tale. They wonder what has happened to Jonathan and also muse upon the mysterious arrival of a ship, with one dead body on board. The simultaneous sightings of a black dog have the town of Whitby in a flap. A strange sequence of events plays out, first with Lucy, then with Mina! The thing that keeps you turning the pages and wanting to know more is the lack of explicit reference. Stoker manages to allude to sexuality and horror in symbolic ways, making it all the more tantalising and just plain scary. The word 'Vampire' is barely mentioned, and so we wonder, along with Harker who or what Dracula is! Here is one of my favourite descriptions: "my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings. At first I could not believe my eyes. I thought it was some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow; but I kept looking, and it could be no delusion. I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall." Isn't it thrilling?!
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Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2011 by Aderyn
Format: Kindle
I decided to get this shortly after seeing James Rolfe’s video on which Dracula movie was more faithful to the book. I not only wanted to see if what he said about the book was true, I also just wanted to try a vampire book that goes back to the very beginning of the modern lore. I didn’t want vampires that went to high school, nor did I want heroes who learned everything from movies; I wanted a story about an evil man who happened to be a blood-sucking creature of the night, and the people who rose against him. Dracula is a bonafide classic which captivated me in the early chapters. The exploits of Jonathan Harker in Dracula’s castle were eerie and suspenseful, seeing how he became a virtual prisoner in a castle he was so cordially invited to. Unfortunately, like many classics, there tends to be a lot of words that ultimately say very little, including long-winded speeches from everyone’s favorite moonlighting vampire-hunter, Professor Van Helsing. But the book’s biggest failing, in my opinion, is the author’s choice of narrative structure. The story is told through a series of journal entries, letters, and newspaper clippings. Am I to truly believe that the characters had typed and even handwritten such lengthy descriptions of their experiences, including entire conversations that can last for paragraphs that take up an entire page? I can hardly do that, especially considering one news article about a fierce storm that reads unlike any kind of newspaper section I’ve ever seen. The thing is, these entries, letters and articles read more like someone telling a fictional story than people recounting extraordinary experiences. While it is interesting to see how a character’s mood changes over time and circumstance, this kind of narrative does little for my suspension of disbelief, and it can take me out of story more often than it takes me in. (And yes, I realize how futile it is to complain about a story over a hundred years old, but hopefully I can dissuade any enterprising writers out there from taking a similar narrative.)
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Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2019 by Jason M. Hubbard
Format: Kindle
KindleUnlimited review. Highly recommend anyone who heard of or watched a Dracula film read this novel. Written in the style of a synchronous diary (i.e., epistolary format), the original Dracula story is a gothic Victorian horror novel containing several variations from the numerous screen adaptations. Each early chapter is entitled “Jonathan’s Harkin’s Journal” and starting with “3 May. Bistritz” is similarly dated with the day and month with occasionally the time. Starting in Chapter 5 the narration expands to include person correspondence between Mina Murray & Lucy Westenra and Quincy Morris & Arthur Holmwood as well as a diary entry from Dr. John Seward. Chapter 6 includes Mina’s journal entries from to 24 July to 6 August and Dr. Seward’s diary entry from 5 June to 20 July. This unique narrative approach continues and expands throughout all 27 chapters (last dated entry 6 November) providing a multifaceted and rich world with an account of events from different character perspectives. As a side note, chapter 25 provides a physiological profile of Count Dracula commensurate with a crime scene investigation procedural program. I think the most interesting character not present in film adaptations is Quincy Morris, a noble American Cowboy brandishing Winchester repeating weapons. Although the love quad-angle between Lucy and three of the men (Morris, Seward, and Holmwood) appears farcical when first presented, it established the prior relationship between the men and why no animosity developed between the them after wards. Furthermore, the manly friends have participated in animal hunts where Morris the American was the director and guide. Another apparent anachronism is how wealth us in itself a virtue: “And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used! I felt so thankful that Lord Godalming is rich, and that both he and Mr. Morris, who also has plenty of money, are willing to spend it so freely. For if they did not, our little expedition could not start, either so promptly or so well equipped, as it will within another hour.” Some may argue that this viewpoint is still prevalent is modern society… ergo economic might makes right. Although the novel was published in 1897, the year is omitted but presumed to be contemporary to the 1890s. Most notably is detailed description of Count Dracula: “His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor… I had noticed the backs of his hands… seemed rather white and fine… rather coarse—broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in the center of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point… his breath was rank…” An odd dissimilarity is the locomotion of how Dracula traverses the castle’s exterior “just as a lizard moves along a wall” whereas in many movies he changes into a flying bat. Later he does travel as a bat, a wolf, fog, and a puff of smoke. Another story difference is Dracula’s ability to call and direct large packs of wolves. He clearly commands the wolves, rats, and spiders as he does any person under his vampiric spell. The story unfolds as a mystery. It’s not until the end of Chapter 14 that Professor Abraham Van Helsing reveals what actually happened to Miss Lucy. There are curious mentions in Stoker’s “Dracula” (1897) novel that make it seem more contemporary. Characters anonymously traverse London in Hansom cabs much like people take an Uber ride today. The party travelled from Paris to Varna via the Orient Express which predates the eponymous “Murder on the Orient Express” (1934) by Agatha Christie. Characters dispatch letters and telegrams like modern society send emails and text messages. Mina prepares typed pages of chronology organized journal entries with her traveler’s typewriter like printing on a modern computer. Similarly, Doctor Seward’s penchant to record his diary instead of writing had the character quip “How I miss my phonograph! To write diary with a pen is irksome to me; but Van Helsing says I must.” There is the typical Victorian ethnocentric view of other cultures. For instance, when discussing killing Count Dracula in Transylvania the author stated “We think that we shall not have much trouble with officials or the seamen. Thank God! this is the country where bribery can do anything, and we are well supplied with money. We have only to make sure that the ship cannot come into port between sunset and sunrise without our being warned, and we shall be safe. Judge Moneybag will settle this case, I think!” As usually the case, Raeford Renfeild’s and Dr. Van Helsing characters are more fully explored in the novel than it’s film counterparts. Renfield is possessed by Dracula much like Gollum in Lord of the Rings and is truly a pitiful character. Whereas, Van Helsing (both an experienced medical doctor, educator, and lawyer) is intelligent, brave, and sincere - a true friend. Similarly, many know that Dracula preying upon the neck of his victims is an allegory for sexual assault. However, the end of Chapter 21 and beginning of Chapter 22 details Dracula’s attack on Mina Harken leaves no doubt to the correlation. The Count’s backstory is summarized as “… he was in life a most wonderful man. Soldier, statesman, and alchemist… He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse... and there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay.“
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Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2024 by DonMiguel
This product is a repurchase because the first book arrived damaged in transit, but I'm so pleased that this copy of Dracula arrived damage-free! I can't wait to read this literary classic for the first time, and I love the artwork on the cover.
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2026 by Jordan L.
The Oxford World's Classics DRACULA edited by Roger Luckhurst has the best introduction and the best notes to DRACULA I've ever seen. It outclasses THE ESSENTIAL DRACULA, whose notes push the reader around one way or another. It explains more and it also, wisely, keeps quiet more, letting the book weave its own spell. The introduction shows how DRACULA is a wonderful mix of almost every kind of evil the Victorian English could think of. The vampire has evil features from anti-Catholic prejudice, from anti-Semitic prejudice, from prejudice against Islam, Middle Europe, the unscientific past -- about the only un-English thing that gets a good word is garlic. As the introducer points out, Dracula is in part based on the "real" Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, but is also based on so many other evil rulers and monsters, real and fictional, that no single source for our monster can be cited or believed in. In other words, Stoker got together a lot of reference works and then made Dracula up, and what a stunning, wonderful job he did. The Luckhurst Oxford World Classics edition is available on Kindle for a small price that's well worth its wonderful notes and analysis. Amazon, in its curiously mysterious way, will not show you the book if you just type in DRACULA. You have to type in something like DRACULA OXFORD instead, and I very much suggest you do that. Doing without notes of one kind or another seems out of the question to me. There are passages in a messed-up seaside-town dialect Stoker made up from a reference book, and I contend NO ONE can read these passages without notes. Luckhurst also fits all the superstitions together, to the degree that Stoker lets him, and I think you need that kind of help too. As for Stoker's DRACULA itself, it came across to me in this reading better than it ever had before. I'd read it two or three times in the past, but I'd been overexposed to NOSFERATU and the Lugosi movie, so I misremembered the book, made it cruder in my recollection than it actually was. Two main points I had forgotten (I'm afraid deep DRACULA readers won't think much of me after these admissions -- and watch out, because some of them are mild S-P-O-I-L-E-R-S): 1) Jonathan Harker, Dracula's helpless victim throughout the first fifth of the book, not only survives but gets a pat on the back for his manliness from the rest of the novel's many heroes. That was a relief, and unified the book for me. You can't keep a good man down. 2) Renfield, the crazy guy who eats flies and spiders, is a good reasoner from a high social class (Luckhurst's annotations make this quite clear, and the way Renfield talks tells the reader the same thing). In movie versions, he's creepy and that's about it. In the novel, he's a philosopher, and some of the most important points about vampire philosophy in general come to us from him. Put these two things together, and the book comes out more intelligent than I remembered, and less pure senseless horror. As pure senseless horror it's just a bit silly. The intelligence and strength of Harker and Renfield save it from that silliness. Lots of people who don't like the book point out that the opening section, where Harker and Dracula face off against one another, is as horrifying as anybody who likes nineteenth century thrillers could possibly want ... but then the book seems to go soft suddenly, focusing on a shallow woman and seeming, for quite a while, like a dull romance novel. Luckhurst's notes, again, helped me get over this impression of slowdown. The nature of manliness and womanliness is tremendously important to Stoker's world-view. As Luckhurst points out, all the novel's manly men break down at one point or another, and are braced up by their need to care for weak, helpless women. All the clichés about masculinity and femininity are dragged out -- and all of them are subverted in the most interesting, and horrifying, possible way. Mina, for example, is a strong, capable woman. Furthermore, she's practically indispensable to the vampire-hunt. The tough doctor, Seward, keeps a diary on phonograph cylinders. He's totally up-to-date, but he forgets even to write a summary of what the cylinders are about, so he can't find anything he told his recorded diary! All he can do is paw helplessly through a drawer full of phonograph cylinders. Mina types them up for him, so that at last the good guys can start tracking Dracula down. But the good guys' decision to keep her out of the rest of their activities, and inform her of nothing as they start sharpening their stakes, makes her immediately fall into Dracula's clutches. In other words, if only they trusted women more, their women wouldn't get hurt so much. Stranger than Dracula himself. But the book has lots of this kind of strangeness. We find out what vampires are bit by bit and bite by bite, but when we're all done, strangely enough, we still don't know what we've really been dealing with: a middle-European monster, or our own monstrous views of how life should go. I never had more fun than with this DRACULA.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2013 by James M. Rawley
It's a 128 year old classic novel that started one of the most famous horror genres and introduces one of THE most iconic characters of all time. But that doesn't mean it's great. The book could be 1/3rd the length and you wouldn't miss a thing. The story being presented through journal entries is ingenious. Harker's entire experience traveling (and escaping) Count Dracula is absolutely frightening and well written to this very day. Its when we get past that event that the book becomes a chore. Every character monologues extensively about such trivial matters that the book begins to bore too often. There's a few points in the book where it becomes even humorous. For example, when Reinfeld awakens from a near death concussed beating and begins to monologue in detailed drawn out sentences for pages and pages. Or Van Helsing spewing about "ManBrain!" and "ChildBrain!" and "WomanBrain" for what feels like FOREVER. Yet when we get to a lot of the details you'd want to hear (like physically slaying Dracula and his brides in his castle) it's written like Stoker is late on handing in his manuscript. The plan our main characters make to hunt down Dracula is written in such detail and specifics (including even what they WON'T do) it nearly feels like some sort of parody. From getting paperwork to hiring a locksmith to reading EVERY WORD they exchanged with various dock workers and realtors. Like the life of a vampire; it feels eternal. Especially since, after finishing the novel, none of these details added to anything. You'll read 7 pages of repetitive blathering just to establish "Johnathon is bringing a lantern." Completely unnecessary. The feeling of dread is weaved throughout this entire 400+ page novel and Stoker does that well. But, in the end, it doesn't lead to much of anything. The book goes from a dark hauntingly bizarre tale of captivity and isolation to long winded excessively detailed ramblings of milquetoast turn of the century characters. The book perks up when Van Helsing is introduced. Then again when Lucy must be destroyed. Tidbits of Reinfeld are insightful. In other words, anything having to do with vampires and Dracula himself is entertaining. The pages fly by when its about normalcy discovering these monsters and their affects. But the book stops too often to talk about needless trivialities. There's character building and then there's unnecessary details. "Dracula" is dragged down by the latter. In the end, Dracula himself and his plan; effects; and actions were honestly very low level. The guy moved to a completely different country, turned Lucy into a vampire, was in the process of slowly turning Mina into one, and then ran away back to his homeland in the middle of the process because the family/friends caught onto his night suckles. There was a lot of build up of his power and evilness. But he seemed to be defeated quite easily. The ending was disappointing. Quickly written in a way that almost brushes it over. My main takeaway from "Dracula" is that travel takes a very long time and is quite inconvenient. I respect this book. There's a strong material here. I don't regret reading it. But, overall, it's bloated as Dracula after a night of feeding.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2025 by Don Salsa Sr.
I had had Dracula on my read list for many years until I saw this version on Kindle for free and couldn't resist. I quickly got engrossed in the book as Jonathan Harker, one of the central protagonists, travels deeper and deeper into the remote regions of Europe. The tension mounts throughout his journey as the locals he meets along the way express a mixture of fear and sorrow for him, though unable to tell him directly because of the language barrier. The scenes in Dracula's castle are indeed terrifying and lonely, like something out of Lovecraft. Things become increasingly desperate, driving Harker to take riskier and riskier chances. The appearance of the women in the castle presages a motif which will become central to the subtext of the story. The corruption of female virtue to its basest and most vile form is genuinely disturbing. Dracula is not content to remain in remote regions of the world, but seeks to set himself loose on the "teeming masses" of London, England. His arrival I felt was one of the most interesting in the book and the reader begins to understand the extent of his potent and growing powers. In an unsuspecting London, Dracula has a largely free hand to spread his evil. The suspense builds as the reader understands more through the journals of the central characters than they do themselves, keeping information to themselves, much to their detriment. It's clear that Stoker aims to unseat his Victorian audience's sense of security even in their own homes and families as the vampire slowly increases his grasp. Once the women succumb to Dracula's control they are both disturbing and enticing to the heros. At this point things become gruesome. Just about anything macabre is in this single story as Stoker gives his audience a full dose of terrifying scenes. Terrible storms, remote lonely castles, wolves, bats, graveyards and cemeteries with overnight stays, home invasions, trances, insane asylums, beheadings, impalings, child abductions, and of course, vampires. The journal-istic nature of the narrative can be frustrating at times and takes some getting used to but also serves to enhance the suspense, giving us no sense of whether the character will live to write the next entry. Overall the book is quite scary and suspenseful with plenty of creepiness. I did find the mens' efforts a bit hapless at times but the author uses this to build suspense, delaying action until it is perhaps too late for them to respond. Dracula himself I found to be more powerful a foe than I had anticipated but retains some weaknesses. Reading this on my Kindle I found the formatting good but without a table of contents to allow the reader to jump to those sections. However, I found the story engaging enough that I didn't require such a feature. I can see why the horror of this book endures. It's a must-read for any fan of horror and this is a good copy of one of the classics.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2010 by E. Baxter
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is a classic of horror, forming a pillar of the genre and becoming the standard for vampire fiction. This place in the canon of horror is well-deserved. The novel opens with Jonathan Harker, an English lawyer, visiting Castle Dracula in Transylvania to help the Count with purchase property in England, as the Count seeks to move to London, where he will have unlimited prey to feed upon. This section, with Harker trapped in the castle and subject to every manner of terror, might just be my favorite of the novel. The mood is as oppressive, spooky, gloomy, and frightening as anything I've read. From there, we follow Dracula's arrival in England, and the conflict between the Count and Harker's friends, led by Abraham Van Helsing, who is the only one of our heroes to initially suspect what they are really dealing with. The hunt to find and slay Dracula and undo his evil deeds is well-orchestrated, and Stoker definitely conveys a sense of desperation as Van Helsing and the others try to foil Dracula's well-laid plans. The novel is written in epistolary format, meaning that it is entirely comprised of journal and diary entries, letters, telegrams, newspaper clippings, ship's logs, and other documentation. This actually works very well, as it allows us to view the thoughts of each character, and even becomes important to the plot itself, as the vampire hunters eventually compare notes to piece together the clues to solve the mystery. The characters are generally well-done, with Count Dracula and Abraham Van Helsing both more than holding up their end of the conflict that defines the narrative. Mina Harker and John Seward are also very strong and compelling characters. Jonathan Harker and Lucy Westenra spend a lot of their time being the victims, and while they do that well, they aren't quite as interesting on their own merits. Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris mostly serve to round out the group of vampire hunters with the necessary resources and talents, though Holmwood's engagement to Lucy gives him some depth. The madman Renfield is entertaining when he appears. There's definitely a layer of Victorian propriety to the novel, but that is part of the tension and entertainment, as so much of the action actually goes against that propriety. The sexual overtones of vampirism certainly fits this characteristic, as does Mina Harker's strong active role in the story, contrary to gender expectations of the time. In fact, when the men try to keep Mina sheltered and in her proper protected place, things get worse for the group until she gets back into the action. For a novel written in 1897, that's pretty progressive. I listened to Brilliance Audio's 1994 production of Dracula, with Tom Casaletto as the narrator, Fredrick Scadron as Jonathan Harker, Sheila Hart as Mina Harker, Mary Beth Quillen Gregor as Lucy Westenra, and Michael Page as John Seward. Each reads the journal entries or other documents written by their character, with Casaletto picking up the other sources. Overall, the cast is strong and the production is enjoyable. My only problem with the production is that not a one of the readers could remotely approximate Quincey Morris' Texas accent. I recently read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, two other horror classics. I really enjoyed those two books (see my Amazon reviews for my thoughts on those two books), but I would have to say that I enjoyed Dracula even more. Dracula matches or beats the other two for mood, but tops them in action. I recommend all three, but if you were to read only one, I'd suggest Dracula. Much like Frankenstein or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, there are good reasons that Dracula has become such a fixture of popular culture, and is still remembered and adapted to film and other formats so frequently. Whether you're interested in the history of horror literature or just looking for an exciting and scary story, I can't recommend Dracula highly enough. Bram Stoker's novel is an enduring masterpiece.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2011 by Gary Hoggatt