Dracula Paperback - 1997

About this book

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From the rear cover

To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is "nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance." In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. And she discusses too the ways in which to the modern reader it is not Transylvania but London that is the location of the monstrosity in Dracula. The many appendices include contemporary reviews; source materials drawn on by Stoker; documents expressing contemporary views on trances, sleepwalking and hypnotism; and other relevant writing by Stoker, including "the censorship of Fiction," in which he expresses his belief in the need to defend the social and moral purity of the nation.

First Edition Identification

Bram Stoker’s Dracula was first published by Archibald Constable and Company; London, 1897. First edition first impression ran 3,000 copies and is yellow cloth, lettered in red. True first editions are marked by a blank integral last page, with no ad for The Shoulder of Shasta. 

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Citations

• Library Journal, 01/01/1998, Page 150