Dracula (Ignatius Critical Editions) (USED)

Description: Product Description : Dracula (Ignatius Critical Editions) When solicitors clerk Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania on business to meet a mysterious Romanian count named Dracula he little expects the horrors this strange meeting will unleash Thus Bram Stokers 1897 novel of blood and passion begins rapidly accelerating from Harkers nightmarish experiences in Castle Dracula to a fullfledged vampiric assault on lateVictorian London itself The story narrated through a collection of documentsprimarily journal entries and letterschronicles the desperate efforts of a band of gentlemen to protect the virtue of their ladies and lay to rest the ancient threat once and for allOften vacillating wildly between the terrible and the comic Dracula at the same time brings to life a host of compelling themes tensions between antiquity and modernity the powers and limitations of technology the critical importance of feminine virtue the difference between superstition and religion the nature of evil and perhaps most compellingly the complex relationship between ancient faith and scientific enlightenment More vivid than any of its varied film adaptations and over a century after its first publication Dracula still retains its sharp bite( it is an used product )

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Location: Houston, Texas

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