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| | The Modern Library Dracula by Bram Stoker |
 | | Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker’s Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: 'It is splendid. | | | Bram Stoker--the Irish novelist, short-story writer, biographer, essayist, and critic best remembered today as the author of Dracula--was born in Dublin, on November 8, 1847. | | | A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679641971
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| | Carmilla: Bram Stokers Inspiration for Dracula |
| | By a similarity in the setting, characters and plot, in Bram Stokers Gothic work Dracula and the posthumously published short story Draculas Guest, Stoker is shown to have used Joseph Sheridan Le Fanus classic, Gothic, short story, Carmilla, as the basis and inspiration for Bram Stokers vampiric masterpiece, Dracula. | | | Stokers use of Styria as the setting for Draculas Guest and Dracula descended from Le Fanus Carmilla. An early inclination of debt shows itself in Stokers first inclination to use Styria, the Austrian provincial setting for Carmilla, as the setting for his vampire novel. | | | Stokers earliest manuscript for the novel is dated 8 March, 1890, and an unnamed count is shown to have a castle in Styria (Bierman, 52); six days later, Stoker has substituted Transylvania for Styria in his working notes (Bierman, 53). |
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| | Amazon.com: Dracula (Signet Classics (Paperback)): Books: Bram Stoker |
| | Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is a masterpiece of not only classic literature, but of gothic and horror novels as well. | | | Bram Stoker's Dracula, the movie directed by Francis Ford Coppolla holds true to the book for those who haven't got the time to sink their teeth into an amazing book as this. | | | Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is chillingly descriptive with an abundance of history surrounding vampire lore and ways to defeat the Un-dead. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451523377?v=glance
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| | Bram Stoker's Dracula |
| | Francis Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula follows a long line of cinematic adaptations of the 1897 Gothic novel written by Stoker. | | | This is not to say Bram Stoker possessed a startlingly original conception in writing the novel Dracula. | | | Schaffer's analysis is a fairly convincing attempt to "out" Bram Stoker, or to prove that he was a closeted homosexual using his fiction as an outlet for the frustrations of concealing his true sexuality. |
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http://www3.niu.edu/comm/chown/Dracula.html
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| | The Literary Gothic Bram Stoker |
| | Another one of Stoker's sexually fraught tales - and another (like "The Judge's House" and Dracula) prominently featuring rats - this one features a hero on the verge of marriage (as was Stoker at the time he was writing this tale), a Parisian dump, and Olympic-caliber athleticism. | | | Everything you ever wanted to know, and then some, about Vlad Tepes, the inspiration (sort of) for Stoker's Count--whom, according to Elizabeth Miller, Stoker first named "Count Wampyr" in an early draft, changing the name to Dracula when he saw a brief mention of Dracula in a book he'd consulted for research purposes. | | | Stoker wrote a number of other novels and short stories, several of which (The Jewel of Seven Stars and Lair of the White Worm, to mention just a couple of the novels) also have major supernaturalist elements. |
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| | Bram Stoker's biography - The Dark Chamber |
| | Bram Stoker obviously based himself on the Hungarian legends about the Prince Vlad Tepes, the "Dracula" (son of the dragon). | | | After that book, Bram Stoker published "The Jewel Of Seven Stars" in 1904 and a few others, before his death in 1918. | | | Although Bram Stoker wanted to be a writer, as his father was a civil servant, he got a job for him at Dublin Castle. |
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| | Bram Stoker's Dracula DVD at Video Universe |
| | A seductive retelling of the legendary tale, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA is Francis Ford Coppola's opulent, erotic, blood-filled feast. | | | BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA was shot on a sound stage rather than on location for financial and stylistic reasons. | | | In his version of the oft-told tale, Francis Ford Coppola takes Bram Stoker's archetypical horror story and accentuates the romantic angle. |
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| | Bram Stoker's Dracula |
| | Although not the first vampire tale, Stoker's Dracula became the archetype for all those that have followed. | | | With all of this shape-changing, it's really no wonder that Dracula is a story that fascinates, even a century later. | | | Stoker seems to have shared the Victorian fascination for technology and science. |
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| | Bram Stoker |
| | Bram Stoker was the author of Dracula, his work was key in the development of the myth of the Vampire. | | | In 1890 Stoker began work on his most famous novel, Dracula. | | | Stoker continued to write, Miss Beauty (1898), The Mystery of the Sea (1902), The Jewel of the Sever Stars (1903), The Man (1905) and the most successful, Lady of the Shroud (1909). |
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| | Bram Stoker - Free Online Library |
| | While Stoker's book has been made in to countless movies, including Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), few capture the original sinister nature of Stoker's novel. | | | Abraham "Bram" Stoker was born in Clontarf, Ireland on November 8th, 1847. | | | There Bram wrote his first work, Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland: Collected Works of Bram Stoker, but it was not published until 1879, after he was already famous. |
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| | Alibris: Bram Stoker |
| | A collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, including the title story, which was an unused sequence from the original "Dracula" novel. | | | Bram Stoker's classic novel of suspense and horror was a bestseller in Britain when it was published in 1897. | | | Containing the complete text of Bram Stoker's classic tale, prominent horror literature expert Leonard Wolf has collected thousands of facts and legends to explore beyond. |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Stoker,Bram
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Bram Stoker |
| | Bram Stoker wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and lectures, but Dracula is by far his most famous work. | | | Many have argued that Henry Irving was an important model for the character of Count Dracula, and that the novel was a kind of unconscious revenge against the man to whom Stoker gave so much. | | | His other works have not aged well, but the story of Count Dracula continues to sell steadily even to this day. |
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| | Bram Stoker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The two that most closely follow the plot of the original novel are Nosferatu (1922) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). | | | However, the lack of historic detail, the shifting of Dracula's home from Wallachia to Transylvania, and the change of his title from prince to count make it seem likely that Stoker did not intend his Count Dracula to be the same person as the historic Vlad Dracula at all. | | | Project Gutenberg e-texts of some of Bram Stoker's works |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Bram Stoker |
| | Stoker wrote ten more novels, but none achieved the success of Dracula, and none have endured in the same way. | | | Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born in 1847, the third of seven children, into a Protestant middle-class family living in Clontarf, a seaside suburb of Dublin. | | | But Stoker's mother had lived through the cholera epidemic of 1832 in Sligo, and told her young son vivid stories about her experiences of the plague. |
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| | Dracula by Bram Stoker of Whitby |
| | Bram Stoker wrote a number of short stories and novels, but surely is remembered for only one, that of his tale of vampires" Dracula", published in 1897. | | | Indeed, Florence Stoker was Oscar Wilde`s first lady friend and he and Bram Stoker continued to cross paths, if not crossing swords, throughout the latter years of the nineteenth century. | | | However, after seeing the actor, Henry Irving act on one of his tours of Ireland, Bram Stoker became the manager of the Lyceum, London, shortly after his marriage to Florence in 1876. |
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| | The Literary Gothic Bram Stoker |
| | Another one of Stoker's sexually fraught tales - and another (like "The Judge's House" and Dracula) prominently featuring rats - this one features a hero on the verge of marriage (as was Stoker at the time he was writing this tale), a Parisian dump, and Olympic-caliber athleticism. | | | Everything you ever wanted to know, and then some, about Vlad Tepes, the inspiration (sort of) for Stoker's Count--whom, according to Elizabeth Miller, Stoker first named "Count Wampyr" in an early draft, changing the name to Dracula when he saw a brief mention of Dracula in a book he'd consulted for research purposes. | | | Stoker wrote a number of other novels and short stories, several of which (The Jewel of Seven Stars and Lair of the White Worm, to mention just a couple of the novels) also have major supernaturalist elements. |
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http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/stoker.html
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| | Bram Stoker - Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula Abraham Stoker, Stoker author, writer - writes professionally Abraham Bram Stoker was an Irish writer, best remembered | | | Buy used, new, rare and out-of-print books by Bram Stoker. | | | Would you like to save on Bram Stoker books at Amazon.com and other book stores? |
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| | BookPage Review:Bram Stoker |
| | Ellen Terry, his longtime partner in drama, was equally acclaimed, but Irving dominated her too.) Few today would recognize Irving's name, but virtually every schoolboy knows (as we used to say when we could be reasonably sure that any schoolboy knew anything) that Bram Stoker is the author of Dracula. | | | Stoker's life is the story of the creation of DraculaÑwhich is lucky for Belford, for otherwise his story would be as dull as accountancy. | | | He was born Abraham Stoker, the third of seven children of an Anglo-Irish family, in Clontarf, Ireland, in 1847. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Bram Stoker's Dracula |
| | Award-winning artist Gary Blythe brilliantly captures the eerie mood of Bram Stoker's uneasy tale, expertly edited for today's reader. | | | It was Bram Stoker's very complete story, and talent that structured and established the finishing touches on the characteristics for the legend of the vampire in the mainstream. | | | Bram Stoker's monster is arguably the original vampire, if not that, he is certainly the most infamous. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0763625086?v=glance
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| | Bram Stoker |
| | Both Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein have led to a whole genre of horror movies, though none bear much resemblance either to the original characters or to the novels in which they first appear. | | | Bram Stoker was the author of several books, the only success was | | | Bram Stoker did not write the first vampire novel in English, only the most enduring. |
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| | Bram Stoker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Abraham "Bram" Stoker (November 8, 1847–April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. | | | He supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which he published in 1897. | | | Nosferatu was produced while Stoker's widow was still alive, and the filmmakers were forced to change the setting and the names of the characters for copyright reasons. |
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| | Bram Stoker's Dracula |
| | A seductive retelling of the legendary tale, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA is Francis Ford Coppola's opulent, erotic, blood-filled feast. | | | If you like Bram Stoker's Dracula, the following films may interest you | | | Bram Stoker's Dracula fansites created by RT users |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bram_stokers_dracula
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| | Bram Stoker's Dracula |
| | In her latest, Dracula, Sense and Nonsense, she exposes over seventy popular misconceptions, distortions and downright errors that have plagued books, articles and documentaries about Bram Stoker and his famous novel for the past thirty years. | | | In 1878, Stoker published his first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland. | | | In 1878, Bram married the actress, Florence Balcombe, and moved to London to become secretary and stage manager for Irving. |
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| | Bram Stoker |
| | When writing his masterpiece "Dracula" Stoker was mainly inspired by three influences: The historic model Vlad Tepes, Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's narration "Carmilla" from 1872 and the Hungarian traveler Arminius Vambery, who told him about the vampire myths in the Balkan Peninsula. | | | Although best known for "Dracula", Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912. | | | Stoker was a sickly child - until the age of eight years he suffered from infantile paralysis. |
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| | Horror Writers Association - Stoker Awards |
| | , named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula. | | | Any work of Horror first published in the English language may be considered for a Stoker during the year of its publication. | | | To ameliorate the competitive nature of awards, the Stokers are given "for superior achievement," not for "best of the year," and the rules are deliberately designed to make ties fairly probable. |
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| | UTEL: Bram Stoker Page |
| | Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula. | | | "Although Stoker wrote a number of short stories which appeared in magazines his reputation as an author stands almost wholly on his novel, Dracula which was first published in 1897. | | | "Born in Dublin in November 1847, Bram Stoker was the third of seven children. |
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