Dracula is a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker. Published in 1897. it serves as a recounting of the exploits of Count Dracula. Dracula is an epistolary novel with the narrative being retold through various different documents.
Characters[]
- Count Dracula
- Jonathan Harker
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Publisher's Summary[]
A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written.
It is a quintessential tale of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula, a tragic, night-dwelling specter who feeds upon the blood of the living, and whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, and the beautiful. But Dracula also stands as a bleak allegorical saga of an eternally cursed being whose nocturnal atrocities reflect the dark underside of the supremely moralistic age in which it was originally written -- and the corrupt desires that continue to plague the modern human condition.
Full Summary[]
The majority of the novel is written in the first person. Most of it takes the form of entries from the main characters' diaries.
At the beginning of the novel, the reader is introduced to Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer who has recently become engaged to Wilhelmina (Mina) and is en route to visit Count Dracula. The company that Harker works for has sold the Count an abandoned house in London. Harker stays at Dracula's castle, soon realising that he is a prisoner there and that his host is not human. Eventually, Harker manages to escape.
The setting then moves to Whitby, England and the narrative is continued through Mina's diary. Mina expresses her love for Jonathan and her concerns when he stops writing to her. The reader is also introduced to Lucy Westenra, Mina's best friend, and the three young men who wish to marry her: the American cowboy Quincy Morris, Lord Arthur Holmwood and Doctor Seward who runs an insane asylum. Doctor Seward's diary introduces the reader to Renfield, a lunatic who eats flies, then spiders, then rats, because he believes that he will absorb their lives.
Lucy begins to sleepwalk and become ill from loss of blood. Doctor Seward contacts Abraham Van Helsing, a Dutch doctor who is also an expert in folklore and mythology, to treat Lucy. It is only after Lucy has died and become a vampire that Van Helsing explains everything to the other characters, including Jonathan Harker who has returned to England.
Dracula then turns his attentions towards Mina, who begins to become vampirized and develops a psychic bond with Dracula. Van Helsing declares that the only way to prevent Mina from becoming a vampire is to destroy Dracula.
Dracula is pursued back to his home in Transylvania. In a final struggle, in which Quincy Morris is killed, Dracula is destroyed and the curse on Mina is lifted.
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See also[]
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Vampyre by John William Pollidori
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
- The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
Sources[]
- LiteraWiki