Dracula (AmazonClassics Edition)
Jonathan Harker is a young solicitor with a straightforward assignment: travel to Transylvania, meet a foreign nobleman, handle some legal business. It does not go well. His client, the enigmatic Count Dracula, turns out to be a vampire with a keen interest in fresh prey, and Harker soon finds himself trapped within the castle walls while the Count sets his sights on something far more personal, namely Mina, Harker's fiancée back in England. What follows is a race against a creature who seems, for all practical purposes, unstoppable. Enter Professor Van Helsing, philosopher, metaphysician, and the one man with both the knowledge and the nerve to stand against Dracula. Harker, Mina, and a small but determined circle of allies gather around him, resolved to end the Count's reach before he slips beyond their grasp entirely. What gives this novel its staying power is Stoker's audacious decision to drag vampire mythology out of crumbling castle ruins and plant it firmly in modern Victorian England. That collision between the ancient and the contemporary gives the story a genuine unease that scholars have been picking apart for well over a century, and it still holds up. Gripping, atmospheric, and surprisingly propulsive for a nineteenth-century novel, this is the book that permanently shaped how we imagine vampires.
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Publisher: AmazonClassics
- Genre: Horror
- ISBN: 978-1542097673
- Pages: 69 pages