Dracula : Illustrated Classics

About The Book

"�I am Dracula. Welcome to my house. Enter freely and of your own will.� Jonathan Harker has little idea that his business trip to meet the mysterious Count of Transylvania would turn into his worst nightmare. Held captive in Dracula�s strange, dark castle, Jonathan discovers that the Count is in fact a vampire, who has been living on human blood for centuries! Soon, Dracula claims his first victim, the beautiful Lucy Westenra, a friend of Jonathan�s wife Mina. But this is just the beginning of Dracula�s cruel intentions. And evil must be vanquished, before it can claim more victims! Now, it will take some clever and courageous people�Professor Van Helsing, Dr Seward, Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, Jonathan and Mina Harker�to outwit and completely destroy the indomitable Dracula. Much before vampires became a fad for the 21st-century reader, Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. Packed with action, thrill and horror, and written in an epistolary form, this mother-of-all gothic novels is a classic page-turner."

About Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker was born on S November 1847 at Clontarf, Dublin in Ireland. His parents attended the Parish Church of Clontarf with their children. Stoker was the third of seven childrer. Stoker was bedridden of an unknown illness till the age of seven when he made a complete recovery. Stoker wrote, "1 was naturally thoughtful and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which gave fruit in my later years. Later, he became a university athlete at Trinity College, Dublin. Stoker became interested in theatre through a friend, Dr Maunsell. He later became a critic for the Dublin Evening Mail. He gained popularity because of the quality of his reviews. He is most famous for his book, Dracula. But during Stoker's lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and as the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of realistic, but completely fictional, diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which added a level of detailed realism to his story, a skill he developed as a newspaper writer. An annual festival takes place in Dublin, the birthplace of Bram Stoker, in honour of his literary achievements. Stoker died due to multiple strokes at the age of 64