Bokrecension: Bram Stoker''s

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Original Dracula
One of the most popular stories ever told, Dracula (1897) has been re-created for the stage & screen hundreds of times in the last century. Yet it is essentially a Victorian saga, an awesome tale of thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities reflect the dark underside of a supremely moralistic age. Above all, Dracula is a quintessential story of suspense & horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters in literature: centuries-old Count Dracula, whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, the beautiful. Bram Stoker, who was also the manager of the famous actor Sir Henry Irving, wrote seventeen novels. Dracula remains his most celebrated & enduring work -- even today this Gothic masterpiece has lost none of the spine-tingling impact that makes it a classic of the genre.



Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”

To be honest, I never intended to read the book until we got the assignment from you. Since I’m not a book-person while my sister is, I asked her for advice. And she remembered that we watched “Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’” at New Years Eve, and she remembered that I said that I really liked the movie. So she suggested I loaned the book from her, which I did. And I am happy that I did.
Bram Stoker had an interesting way to write, and that’s probably the first thing I noticed about the book. He wrote as if taken from the characters journals. He starts off with the journal of the young Jonathan Harker, who has been sent from his firm to financially help Count Dracula, who is buying a mansion in London. Jonathan Harker (who, by the way, is one of the most important main characters) tells in his journal about how he traveled from his hometown to the land of Count Dracula. He gets picked up by a man with some horses and a… Well, can’t really remember the name, but I hope you understand what I mean. Anyway, on the way to the castle where he now would be living, some strange things happen. They hear many wolves, blue lights light up in the middle of nowhere and the “diver” runs to the blue lights… So far, so strange...
Anyway, he finally arrives at the ghost-like castle. First, there’s absolutely no one there and he starts to wonder if he’s at the wrong castle. It’s all dark and alone… No lights, no sign of life… But then he sees light coming from under the big door and Count Dracula opens the door. And the line he speaks as he enters the door and greets Mr. Harker is a line that will be remembered for many centuries to come.
Now, normally what I would do at this point would be to quote that line, but since I forgot the book in my locker, that will be kind of difficult. So let’s just move on, shall we? Alright, then.
Anyway, Jonathan realizes almost at once that something is wrong with the Count. He is surprisingly strong for his age, for one thing. And speaking of his age, he looks to be more than 100 years old! And his skin is so white, he looks whiter than the paper I’m writing these words on. But even tough Jonathan knows something’s not right, he do not dare to ask at first sight of the Count. And he can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong by himself. Until the end…



Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker was born in a suburb to Dublin, Ireland, on November 8 1847. Bram where the third child of seven (where there no condoms in 1847?). And before he began school at age seven he was an invalid, actually. But later on, he made an amazing recovery (whatever that means in his case) and he said this about all of it: “I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years”.
As mentioned above, he did recover and became an excellent athlete at the Trinity College in Dublin (still don’t know how you can recover from invalidation, but somehow it worked out well for him). He also graduated from there with honors in mathematics.
Bram was also a president, but not of the United States or anything. Nope, he was a president of the University Philosophical Society. His first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society".
And… Wait a minute… This was supposed to be about the book, not the author…
Well, anyway, let’s get back to the topic at hand, shall we? Bram Stoker continued:
Well, actually, not much else to say except that in 1871 Bram Stoker married Florence Balcombe and they had a so...