Dracula: Including the Story “Dracula’s Guest”

Bram Stoker

Nov 2011 · Top Five Classics Book 2 · Top Five Books LLC

About this ebook

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula includes:

• The original, unabridged, and proofread text

• Stoker’s short story, “Dracula’s Guest”

• Full-color maps and historical illustrations

• Introduction

• Author bio

Told in a series of first-person missives and reports, and set in 1890s Transylvania and England, Dracula is the source of every vampire story told since, the founding text of the entire genre. Count Vlad Dracula—as Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, Mina Murray, and Dr. Abraham Van Helsing learn—is a dangerous and powerful creature who’s lived for hundreds of years and possesses powers no mortal can claim. Bent on creating legions of Un-Dead followers in populous London, Dracula must be stopped—but how?

Ratings and reviews

Excellent read packed full of suspense and very descriptive and gives a very good insight into how the english language was used over a century ago although I had to read many parts repeatedly to extrcat the correct meaning, however this says more about me than anything else. Easy to see how it inspired the genre that flowed from it and I will definitely seek out his other work. Essential reading for horror fans.

Dracula, Is one of those book which every one wants so bad to be great myself included but which is not and by saying it's a classic isn't enough to make it great . The best parts are Jonathan journey and encounter with Dracula who is very frightening and seem to be having fun at Jonathan's expense and his brilliant arrival in England which is something else. but once here the fair of the great pestilence he would unleash just never materialized and it went down hill from then on .

This is certainly a classic, but the writing style and language is dull and rambling. Written in a diary style this is perhaps not the best way, in my own opinion, of engaging the reader. The first few chapters are engaging, and descriptive. Jonathan Harker, the fictional character and one of the main protagonists in the novel, certainly invokes mystery, fear and unease as he describes his experiences in the Count's castle. However the pace is gradually lost and while a classic in literature, it somehow loses something, perhaps more due to its being written more than a century ago. The book has certainly inspired the modern genre, and without it we would not have countless good and bad Dracula movies. Worth a read, if only once, and especially given it's free. But only for its place in history.

About the author

Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 8, 1847. He was educated at Trinity College. He worked as a civil servant and a journalist before becoming the personal secretary of the famous actor Henry Irving. He wrote 15 works of fiction including Dracula, The Lady of the Shroud, and The Lair of the White Worm, which was made into film. He died on April 20, 1912.