Dracula (Heroes & Villains)
By (Author) Bram Stoker
Vintage Publishing
Vintage Classics
5th April 2018
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
432
Width 110mm, Height 178mm, Spine 27mm
229g
Vintage Heroes & Villains- A lineup of literature's most dastardly, devilish and daring characters Collected inside this book are diary entries, letters and newspaper clippings that piece together the depraved story of the ultimate predator. A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imprisoned in a Transylvanian castle by his mysterious host. Back at home his fiancee and friends are menaced by a malevolent force which seems intent on imposing suffering and destruction. Can the devil really have arrived on England's shores And what is it that he hungers for so desperately
Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin on 8 November 1847. He graduated in Mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin in 1867 and then worked as a civil servant. In 1878 he married Florence Balcombe. He later moved to London and became business manager of his friend Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre. He wrote several sensational novels including novels The Snake's Pass (1890), Dracula (1897), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). Bram Stoker died on 20 April 1912.