Dracula
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival. In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.Show more
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An excellent audiobook for the daily commute. I felt as if I was attending a play. The different cast members reading the diaries and letters drew me in and made it difficult at times to exit my car.
“Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact
that the driver was in the act
of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast
ruined castle, from whose tall, black
windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements
showed a jagged line against the sky…
“Welcome to my house! Enter freely.
Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!”
“What sort of adventure was it on which I had embarked?”
Of all of the protagonists, it...read more
This was brilliant as an audio book. As with many classics, it contains a lot of tangential rambling from the characters that, if I had read, probably would have put me off. But the audio allowed to gloss over those and focus only on the main bits. The main plot is more interesting than I would have thought and it moves at a decent pace ignoring all the rambles of course.
My chalenge to myself over the past year has been to read more of the books on my shelf that I would not usually pick up. Dracula was one of these books. While I did enjoy the overall story as I am a fan of horror and suspense, I do feel that the book is very of its time and would have been more enjoyable without the knowledge now of horror literature. The book itself did drag on but I didn’t mind it.
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