Dracula (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

What a grand story. The style is unusual and contributed to the suspense. It shocks me how poorly all the recent movies retell this story.

Already familiar with Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the films that have hence been made, I wanted to read the original classic. Upon reading, it took a chapter to get use to the language of that period before I found my flow. The numbered chapters contain sub chapters which are indicated as diary and journal entries, letters and telegrams, but don’t let that deter you as the novel reads as any other with correspondence and the unfolding of the tale. Keep in mind that the dialogue between characters gives the reader an understanding of their relationships which builds up the drama that occurs throughout. As the usual, many differences can be found between film and book throughout the story to it’s very end. It’s a horror classic, read it, you’ll be glad you did.

Definitely a classic and worth reading. However I will have to admit that I did hurriedly run through a lot of it - particularly at the end.

Great book, some cutting edge themes and even technology for its time. A great book to read chronologically. Thanks Bram!

Very good. Very suspenseful. I enjoyed it immensely. The ending was like a race against time and it was exciting. Great read.

Rereading Dracula after forty years, I find the eerie charm and tightly wound drama still very compelling, though the story is by now too familiar to create in me the terror of imagination that it first did. Dracula himself and the other villains in the story are appropriately horrifying while the heroes, with their long and florid Victorian era speeches, exaggerated nobility and piety, interrupt the reader’s absorption and keep reminding us that this is all just make believe. Van Helsing in particular becomes a comic figure with his stumbling English and grandiosity, rather than the exotic, stalwart man of genius and action that Stoker might have intended. So for me, this book read much like a history, as I tried to imagine it being read afresh by people in the very early 1900’s, and the impact it must have had then. Stoker’s genius and craftsmanship that brought this fable of delicious terror to life more than a century ago still excites us today, and deserves to be read in its original form.

Even though it was dated, the book stands the test of time. The only film version of the novel that is close is the 1992 that featured Gary Oldman, Win on a Ryder, Keanu Reeves and Sir Anthony Hopkins.

The book is new and glance but the cover had a slight piece of dirt double tape, that killed first impression I’d took it before I took a photo but the trace is still visible

Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ has been reprinted countless times: it is a wonderful story and rightfully a timeless gothic classic. The trick is finding a good version of the book. This edition is the best-quality for price I have found. It provides, in beautiful canvas-bound hardcover, a reprinting of the 1897 first edition, as opposed to the abridged 1901 edition (there are only these two official ‘Dracula’ versions in circulation). This means you are getting the complete Dracula story as first experienced by Victorian readers (not the condensed version Stoker prepared in 1901 which omitted certain scenes). Only minor typographical corrections have been made so that the manuscript fits the Penguin Classics style guide, and certain errors that were made in the 1897 printing have been fixed (four incorrectly listed dates in crucial diary entries, and one misspelled word). For the price point, this is as close to an original edition as a reader can come.

beautiful

sticky price label on the back that ruins the cover when removed, dirty cover, and some ruined papers it's such a shame tbh

Look great, a gift for Christmas, delivery shocking left on the floor near front door, not even a knock.

satisfaite